--- title: All is weakness and evil under the sun. I will no longer mingle with… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics description: All is weakness and evil under the sun. I will no longer mingle with men, but will go apart and seek to prepare myself for a higher existence among those who by contemplation and renunciation have become fit for companionship with the gods.” Who acts: weakness. 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I will no longer mingle with men, but will go apart and seek to prepare myself for a higher existence among those who by contemplation and renunciation have become fit for companionship with the gods.” **Who acts:** weakness · **What happens:** be, mingle, go, seek, prepare, become · **To what, where:** weakness, sun., myself 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 (weakness), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg75089:10:45 # text = All is weakness and evil under the sun. I will no longer mingle with men, but will go apart and seek to prepare myself for a higher existence among those who by contemplation and renunciation have become fit for companionship with the gods.” 1 All all DET DT PronType=Tot 3 det _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 weakness weakness NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 evil evil NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 6 under under ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 sun. sun. NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 9 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 10 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 11 no no ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 13 advmod _ _ 13 mingle mingle VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 14 with with ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 but but CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 go go VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 13 parataxis _ _ 20 apart apart ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 seek seek VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 prepare prepare VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 xcomp _ _ 25 myself myself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 24 obj _ _ 26 for for ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 higher high ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 29 amod _ _ 29 existence existence NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 30 among among ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 those that PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 24 obl _ _ 32 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 38 nsubj _ _ 33 by by ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 contemplation contemplation NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 renunciation renunciation NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 conj _ _ 37 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 38 become become VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 31 acl:relcl _ _ 39 fit fit ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 xcomp _ _ 40 for for ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 companionship companionship NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ _ 42 with with ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 gods god NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 ” " PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | | all weakness and evil | | the sun. | | evil *conj* | tree rules | | 2 | **mingle** | future | all weakness and evil | | | | | with men; I *nsubj*; long *property* | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with man=Co-Patient | | 3 | **go** | future | | | | | | apart *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **seek** | infinitive | | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **prepare** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | | myself | | | | for a higher existence; among those; with the gods | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent myself=Patient with god=Instrument | | 6 | **become** | present · perfect | | | | | | who by contemplation and renunciation *nsubj*; fit *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/10/44/) - next →: [sentence 46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/10/46/) - ↑ back to [A Chinese Tea-house Story](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/10/)