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title: To the Chinese but little stage setting is necessary for their natio… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: To the Chinese but little stage setting is necessary for their national heroes. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Chinese Hero, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Hero, sentence 5

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To the Chinese but little stage setting is necessary for their national heroes.

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**What happens:** be

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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: 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:pg75089:9:5
# text = To the Chinese but little stage setting is necessary for their national heroes.
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
3	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
4	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
6	stage	stage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	setting	setting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	necessary	necessary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	heroes	hero	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | to the Chinese stage setting; for heroes's national heroes; necessary *property* | tree rules |

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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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