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title: When you were ill did I not promise the gods that if you recovered I… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Tea-house Story, sentence 74

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When you were ill did I not promise the gods that if you recovered I would go to the highest temple on the mountains, crawling all the way on hands and knees, and when you were restored to health did I not fulfil my vow?

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**Who acts:** you, I, gods, my · **What happens:** be, not promise, recover, go, crawl, restore · **To what, where:** gods, highest temple, way, hands, you, health · **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 (you, I, gods, my), 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:pg75089:10:74
# text = When you were ill did I not promise the gods that if you recovered I would go to the highest temple on the mountains, crawling all the way on hands and knees, and when you were restored to health did I not fulfil my vow?
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	advcl	_	_
5	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	promise	promise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	nsubj	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	obj	_	_
12	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	recovered	recover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	ccomp	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	highest	high	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	21	amod	_	_
21	temple	temple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	crawling	crawl	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
27	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	29	det:predet	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
30	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	knees	knee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
36	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	39	advmod	_	_
37	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
38	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux:pass	_	_
39	restored	restore	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	_
40	to	to	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	health	health	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
42	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	aux	_	_
43	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
44	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	45	advmod	_	_
45	fulfil	fulfil	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
46	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	47	nmod:poss	_	_
47	vow	vow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | you |  |  |  |  | ill *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **promise** *speech: promise* | past · do-support | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **recover** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | you | the gods |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **go** | would | I |  |  | the highest temple on the mountains |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to temple=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **crawl** | gerund | I *not said here* | all way |  | hands and knees |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location way=Theme |
| 6 | **restore** | past · passive |  | you | health |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to health=Recipient |
| 7 | **not** **fulfil** | past · do-support | the gods | my vow |  |  |  | I *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 8 | **vow** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom vow «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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