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title: “I have looked at it all, tasted much of it, and it does not satisfy… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: “I have looked at it all, tasted much of it, and it does not satisfy beyond the passing moment. Who acts: vanity, luxury. 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 115

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“I have looked at it all, tasted much of it, and it does not satisfy beyond the passing moment.

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**Who acts:** vanity, luxury · **What happens:** look, taste, not satisfy · **To what, where:** much

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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 (vanity, luxury), 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:pg75089:10:115
# text = “I have looked at it all, tasted much of it, and it does not satisfy beyond the passing moment.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	looked	look	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	tasted	taste	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
10	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	satisfy	satisfy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
19	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	passing	passing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** *in a quote* | present · perfect | vanity |  |  |  |  | at luxury | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme |
| 2 | **taste** *in a quote* | past |  | much of luxury |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme much=Attribute |
| 3 | **not** **satisfy** *in a quote* | present · do-support | luxury |  |  |  | moment |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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