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title: “Name, honour, riches, luxury; at the end of all is death,” continue… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: “Name, honour, riches, luxury; at the end of all is death,” continued Chi Hsiao Tang. Who acts: Name. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Chinese Tea-house Story, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Tea-house Story, sentence 114

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“Name, honour, riches, luxury; at the end of all is death,” continued Chi Hsiao Tang.

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**Who acts:** Name · **What happens:** be, continue · **To what, where:** Hsiao Tang

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This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Chinese Tea-house Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Name), 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:pg75089:10:114
# text = “Name, honour, riches, luxury; at the end of all is death,” continued Chi Hsiao Tang.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	honour	honour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	riches	rich	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	luxury	luxury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
19	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	Chi	Chi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	Hsiao	Hsiao	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Tang	Tang	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  | of all death | tree rules |
| 2 | **continue** | past | Name and honour and riches and luxury | Hsiao Tang |  |  |  |  | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent tang=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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