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title: One day the Emperor Chia Ching called his scribe, the great and craf… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: One day the Emperor Chia Ching called his scribe, the great and crafty Yen Sung, and said, “I want four poems immediately, one on each of the seasons.” Who acts: Chia Ching. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Chinese Tea-house Story, with its dependency tree a
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Tea-house Story, sentence 2

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One day the Emperor Chia Ching called his scribe, the great and crafty Yen Sung, and said, “I want four poems immediately, one on each of the seasons.”

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**Who acts:** Chia Ching · **What happens:** call, say, want · **To what, where:** scribe, four poems · **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 (Chia Ching), 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:pg75089:10:2
# text = One day the Emperor Chia Ching called his scribe, the great and crafty Yen Sung, and said, “I want four poems immediately, one on each of the seasons.”
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Chia	Chia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Ching	Ching	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	scribe	scribe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
12	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	crafty	crafty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
15	Yen	Yen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Sung	Sung	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	ccomp	_	_
24	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	poems	poem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
26	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	ccomp	_	_
29	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	28	nmod	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	seasons	season	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | past | the Chia Ching |  | Ching's scribe  the great Yen Sung |  | day |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent scribe=Recipient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Chia Ching *not said here* |  |  |  |  | one on each of the seasons *ccomp* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **want** *in a quote* | present | the Chia Ching *= ching* | four poems |  |  |  | immediately *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot poem=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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