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title: The Emperor was much pleased and gave Yen Sung costly presents and h… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: The Emperor was much pleased and gave Yen Sung costly presents and high literary honours. Who acts: Emperor. 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 27

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The Emperor was much pleased and gave Yen Sung costly presents and high literary honours.

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**Who acts:** Emperor · **What happens:** be, give · **To what, where:** costly presents, Yen Sung

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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 (Emperor), 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:pg75089:10:27
# text = The Emperor was much pleased and gave Yen Sung costly presents and high literary honours.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	much	much	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
8	Yen	Yen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Sung	Sung	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	costly	costly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	presents	present	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	literary	literary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	honours	honour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the Emperor |  |  |  |  | pleased *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** | past | the Emperor *not said here* | costly presents and high literary honours | Yen Sung |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent sung=Recipient present=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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