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title: Among the Chinese the wild goose has the reputation for having more… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: Among the Chinese the wild goose has the reputation for having more virtues and wisdom than any other bird. Who acts: reputation. 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 5

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Among the Chinese the wild goose has the reputation for having more virtues and wisdom than any other bird.

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**Who acts:** reputation · **What happens:** have · **To what, where:** reputation, more virtues

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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 (reputation), 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:pg75089:8:5
# text = Among the Chinese the wild goose has the reputation for having more virtues and wisdom than any other bird.
1	Among	among	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
3	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	goose	goose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
7	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	reputation	reputation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
12	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	amod	_	_
13	virtues	virtue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	than	than	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	det	_	_
18	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present |  | the reputation |  |  |  | among the Chinese wild goose | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reputation=Patient |
| 2 | **have** | gerund | the reputation *not said here* | more virtues and wisdom |  |  |  | than any other bird | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent virtue=Patient |

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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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