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title: We have our unchanging customs of going north in the spring and sout… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: We have our unchanging customs of going north in the spring and south in the winter. Who acts: We, unchanging customs. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, The Wild Goose and the Sparrow, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, The Wild Goose and the Sparrow, sentence 36

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We have our unchanging customs of going north in the spring and south in the winter.

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**Who acts:** We, unchanging customs · **What happens:** have, go · **To what, where:** unchanging customs

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This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, The Wild Goose and the Sparrow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, unchanging customs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg75089:8:36
# text = We have our unchanging customs of going north in the spring and south in the winter.
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	unchanging	unchanging	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	customs	custom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
8	north	north	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	south	south	ADV	RB	_	8	conj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | We | our unchanging customs |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent custom=Patient |
| 2 | **go** | gerund | our unchanging customs *not said here* |  |  |  |  | north *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Project Gutenberg book 75089 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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