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title: The sage added further, “You will have also to serve us, dig roots,… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: The sage added further, “You will have also to serve us, dig roots, and prepare our food, you who at home have always been served. Who acts: sage, You. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Chinese Tea-house Story, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Tea-house Story, sentence 136

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The sage added further, “You will have also to serve us, dig roots, and prepare our food, you who at home have always been served.

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**Who acts:** sage, You · **What happens:** add, have, serve, dig, prepare · **To what, where:** us, roots, food · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (sage, You), 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:pg75089:10:136
# text = The sage added further, “You will have also to serve us, dig roots, and prepare our food, you who at home have always been served.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sage	sage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	added	add	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	further	further	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
10	also	also	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	serve	serve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
13	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	dig	dig	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
16	roots	root	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	prepare	prepare	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
20	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
28	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	30	advmod	_	_
29	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	served	serve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **add** *speech: assert* | past | the sage |  |  |  |  | further *property* | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **have** *in a quote* | future | You |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **serve** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | You *not said here* | us |  |  |  |  | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Attribute |
| 4 | **dig** *in a quote* | infinitive | You *not said here* | roots |  |  |  |  | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent root=Theme |
| 5 | **prepare** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | our food |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient |
| 6 | **serve** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive |  |  |  |  |  | who  you at home *nsubj:pass*; always *property* | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute |

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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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