--- title: Putting his back against a pillar, he said, “Great Prince, you think… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics description: Putting his back against a pillar, he said, “Great Prince, you think to deceive my master, the very Great Prince of Chou; you do not intend to give him the twelve cities. Who acts: minister, you. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, The Jade Treasure, with its dep --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/11/47/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Gleanings from Chinese folklore](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/) / [The Jade Treasure](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/11/) / 47 # Gleanings from Chinese folklore, The Jade Treasure, sentence 47 Putting his back against a pillar, he said, “Great Prince, you think to deceive my master, the very Great Prince of Chou; you do not intend to give him the twelve cities. **Who acts:** minister, you · **What happens:** put, say, think, deceive, not intend, give · **To what, where:** back, pillar, master, twelve cities, minister · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (minister, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg75089:11:47 # text = Putting his back against a pillar, he said, “Great Prince, you think to deceive my master, the very Great Prince of Chou; you do not intend to give him the twelve cities. 1 Putting put VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ _ 2 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 against against ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 pillar pillar NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 “ " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 Great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 think think VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 deceive deceive VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 ccomp _ _ 19 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 master master NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 23 very very ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 Great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 appos _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 Chou Chou PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 ; ; PUNCT : _ 32 punct _ _ 29 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 30 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 31 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 32 advmod _ _ 32 intend intend VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 34 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 xcomp _ _ 35 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 iobj _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 twelve twelve NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 38 nummod _ _ 38 cities city NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **put** | gerund | minister *not said here* | minister's back | | a pillar | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent back=Theme against pillar=Destination | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | minister | | | | | Great Prince *ccomp* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present | you | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 4 | **deceive** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | my master | | | | | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent master=Patient | | 5 | **not** **intend** *in a quote* | present · do-support | you | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **give** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | the twelve cities | minister | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient city=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/11/46/) - next →: [sentence 48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/11/48/) - ↑ back to [The Jade Treasure](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/11/)