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title: Often during the time of kite-flying in China, away in the heavens o… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: Often during the time of kite-flying in China, away in the heavens one sees a kite in the shape of an old-time warrior, and few of the many beautiful and fancy kites to be seen have such an interesting story. Who acts: time, few. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russel
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Hero, sentence 101

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Often during the time of kite-flying in China, away in the heavens one sees a kite in the shape of an old-time warrior, and few of the many beautiful and fancy kites to be seen have such an interesting story.

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**Who acts:** time, few · **What happens:** fly, see, have · **To what, where:** one, China, kite, shape, interesting story

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This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Chinese Hero. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (time, few), 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:pg75089:9:101
# text = Often during the time of kite-flying in China, away in the heavens one sees a kite in the shape of an old-time warrior, and few of the many beautiful and fancy kites to be seen have such an interesting story.
1	Often	often	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	during	during	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	kite	kite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	away	away	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	heavens	heaven	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
16	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	obj	_	_
17	sees	see	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	kite	kite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
24	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
25	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	warrior	warrior	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	nsubj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
34	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
35	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	fancy	fancy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	conj	_	_
38	kites	kite	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	_
39	to	to	PART	TO	_	41	mark	_	_
40	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	aux:pass	_	_
41	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	38	acl	_	_
42	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	parataxis	_	_
43	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	46	det:predet	_	_
44	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	interesting	interesting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | gerund | the time *not said here* | one |  | China |  | kite *compound*; away *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent one=Theme in china=Location |
| 2 | **see** | present | the time | a kite |  | the shape of a time warrior |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer kite=Stimulus |
| 3 | **see** | to-infinitive · passive | few of the many beautiful kites *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V» |
| 4 | **have** | present | few of the many beautiful kites | such interesting story |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=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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