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title: As the already disappointed scholar turned away he said, “What can I… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: As the already disappointed scholar turned away he said, “What can I hope for when such a man as that is executed?” Who acts: disappointed scholar, scholar. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Chinese Tea-house Story, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Tea-house Story, sentence 42

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As the already disappointed scholar turned away he said, “What can I hope for when such a man as that is executed?”

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**Who acts:** disappointed scholar, scholar · **What happens:** turn away, say, hope, execute · **To what, where:** man · **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 (disappointed scholar, scholar), 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:pg75089:10:42
# text = As the already disappointed scholar turned away he said, “What can I hope for when such a man as that is executed?”
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	already	already	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	disappointed	disappointed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	scholar	scholar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	_
7	away	away	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	15	obj	_	_
13	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	hope	hope	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	24	mark	_	_
18	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	20	det:predet	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	nmod	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	executed	execute	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn away** | past | the disappointed scholar |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | scholar |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **hope** *in a quote* | can | scholar |  |  |  |  | What *obj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **execute** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | such man as that |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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