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title: People come to depend on us, and make ready for either their spring… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: People come to depend on us, and make ready for either their spring work or the cold of winter. Who acts: People. 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 37

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People come to depend on us, and make ready for either their spring work or the cold of winter.

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**Who acts:** People · **What happens:** come, depend, make, work

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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 (People), 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:pg75089:8:37
# text = People come to depend on us, and make ready for either their spring work or the cold of winter.
1	People	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	depend	depend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
10	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	either	either	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc:preconj	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	cold	cold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | People |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **depend** | to-infinitive | People *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on us | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent on we=Theme |
| 3 | **make** | infinitive | People *not said here* |  |  |  |  | ready *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 4 | **work** |  | people |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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