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title: He knew, if he did not accept the proposal, the Prince of Chin would… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: He knew, if he did not accept the proposal, the Prince of Chin would make war on him and take it by force, and he also felt sure he would not get the promised cities. Who acts: Chou, proposal. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, The Jade Treasure, with its depend
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, The Jade Treasure, sentence 32

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He knew, if he did not accept the proposal, the Prince of Chin would make war on him and take it by force, and he also felt sure he would not get the promised cities.

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**Who acts:** Chou, proposal · **What happens:** know, not accept, make, take, feel, not get · **To what, where:** war, promised cities

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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 (Chou, proposal), 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:pg75089:11:32
# text = He knew, if he did not accept the proposal, the Prince of Chin would make war on him and take it by force, and he also felt sure he would not get the promised cities.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	accept	accept	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	proposal	proposal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Chin	Chin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
18	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	by	by	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	force	force	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	also	also	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
31	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	xcomp	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
33	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
34	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	35	advmod	_	_
35	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	ccomp	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	promised	promise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	38	amod	_	_
38	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | past | Chou |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **not** **accept** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · do-support | Chou |  |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **make** | would | the proposal | war |  |  |  | on Chou | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset war=Product |
| 4 | **take** | infinitive | the proposal *not said here* | war |  |  |  | by force | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 5 | **feel** | past | Chou |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 6 | **not** **get** | would | Chou | the promised cities |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer city=Stimulus |
| 7 | **promise** *speech: promise* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=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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