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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Tea-house Story, sentence 31

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After much thought as to how to avert such a calamity, he issued a proclamation that no one by the name of Chi be admitted to the examination.

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**Who acts:** story · **What happens:** think, avert, issue, admit, name · **To what, where:** calamity, proclamation, one, examination, Chi · **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 (story), 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:pg75089:10:31
# text = After much thought as to how to avert such a calamity, he issued a proclamation that no one by the name of Chi be admitted to the examination.
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	much	much	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	thought	think	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	fixed	_	_
6	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	avert	avert	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
9	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	11	det:predet	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	calamity	calamity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	issued	issue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	proclamation	proclamation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
18	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	19	det	_	_
19	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Chi	Chi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	admitted	admit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	advcl	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	examination	examination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **avert** | to-infinitive |  | such calamity |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **issue** | past | story | a proclamation |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location proclamation=Theme |
| 4 | **admit** *speech: other* | infinitive · passive |  | no one by the name of Chi | the examination |  |  |  | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to examination=Recipient |
| 5 | **name** |  |  | Chi |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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