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title: At last he said, “The residents of the inner palace” (i.e., ladies)… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: At last he said, “The residents of the inner palace” (i.e., ladies) “have heard of this wonderful stone and are most anxious to see it. Who acts: Prince. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, The Jade Treasure, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, The Jade Treasure, sentence 39

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At last he said, “The residents of the inner palace” (i.e., ladies) “have heard of this wonderful stone and are most anxious to see it.

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**Who acts:** Prince · **What happens:** say, hear, be, see · **To what, where:** residents, last, stone · **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 (Prince), 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:pg75089:11:39
# text = At last he said, “The residents of the inner palace” (i.e., ladies) “have heard of this wonderful stone and are most anxious to see it.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	last	last	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	residents	resident	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	inner	inner	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
14	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	i.e.	i.e.	ADV	FW	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	17	punct	_	_
19	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	det	_	_
24	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
28	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	29	advmod	_	_
29	anxious	anxious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	advcl	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Prince | the residents of the inner palace |  | last |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **hear** *in a quote* | present · perfect | Prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of this wonderful stone | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of stone=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  | anxious *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **see** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Prince *not said here* | stone |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |

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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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