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title: Here he prostrated himself before his Emperor and, holding out the s… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, The Jade Treasure, sentence 10

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Here he prostrated himself before his Emperor and, holding out the stone, said, “My Master, my Lord; in all the world under Heaven there is no second piece of jade equal to this.”

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**Who acts:** workman · **What happens:** prostrate, hold out, say, be · **To what, where:** workman, stone, second piece, world · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, The Jade Treasure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (workman), 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:pg75089:11:10
# text = Here he prostrated himself before his Emperor and, holding out the stone, said, “My Master, my Lord; in all the world under Heaven there is no second piece of jade equal to this.”
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	prostrated	prostrate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obj	_	_
5	before	before	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
15	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	Master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	27	det:predet	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
28	under	under	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Heaven	Heaven	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
30	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	31	expl	_	_
31	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
32	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	34	det	_	_
33	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	34	amod	_	_
34	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	jade	jade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
37	equal	equal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
38	to	to	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	34	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prostrate** | past | workman | workman |  | here | before workman's Emperor |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hold out** | gerund |  | the stone |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | workman *not said here* |  |  |  |  | My Master *ccomp* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | no second piece |  | all world |  | of jade | tree rules |

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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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