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title: The Emperor was distrustful, but he commanded that it be cut and pol… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: The Emperor was distrustful, but he commanded that it be cut and polished and the man who brought it be put in prison. Who acts: Emperor, man. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, The Jade Treasure, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, The Jade Treasure, sentence 24

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The Emperor was distrustful, but he commanded that it be cut and polished and the man who brought it be put in prison.

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**Who acts:** Emperor, man · **What happens:** be, command, cut, polish, bring, put · **To what, where:** stone, man, prison · **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 (Emperor, man), 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:pg75089:11:24
# text = The Emperor was distrustful, but he commanded that it be cut and polished and the man who brought it be put in prison.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	distrustful	distrustful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	commanded	command	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	advcl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	polished	polish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	prison	prison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the Emperor |  |  |  |  | distrustful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **command** | past | Emperor |  |  |  |  |  | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **cut** | infinitive · passive |  | stone |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 4 | **polish** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **bring** | past | the man | stone |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 6 | **put** | infinitive · passive |  | the man |  | prison |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in prison=Destination |

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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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