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title: The Prince of Chin was afraid the jade would either be injured or de… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: The Prince of Chin was afraid the jade would either be injured or destroyed if a struggle for possession took place, so he caused the minister to be locked in his rooms until he should willingly give it up. Who acts: Prince, struggle. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi R
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, The Jade Treasure, sentence 49

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The Prince of Chin was afraid the jade would either be injured or destroyed if a struggle for possession took place, so he caused the minister to be locked in his rooms until he should willingly give it up.

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**Who acts:** Prince, struggle · **What happens:** be, injure, destroy, take, cause, lock · **To what, where:** jade, place, minister, rooms

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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, struggle), 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:pg75089:11:49
# text = The Prince of Chin was afraid the jade would either be injured or destroyed if a struggle for possession took place, so he caused the minister to be locked in his rooms until he should willingly give it up.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Chin	Chin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	jade	jade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
10	either	either	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc:preconj	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	injured	injure	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	ccomp	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	destroyed	destroy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
15	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	struggle	struggle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	possession	possession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
21	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	caused	cause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	minister	minister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
29	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	locked	lock	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	advcl	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	rooms	room	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	_
34	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
35	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
36	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
37	willingly	willingly	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	advcl	_	_
39	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obj	_	_
40	up	up	ADP	RP	_	38	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the Prince of Chin |  |  |  |  | afraid *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **injure** | would · passive |  | the jade |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **destroy** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **take** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | a struggle for possession | place |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme |
| 5 | **cause** | past | Prince | the minister |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition minister=Patient |
| 6 | **lock** | to-infinitive · passive | Prince *not said here* |  |  | Prince's rooms |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
| 7 | **give up** | should | Prince | jade |  |  |  | willingly *property* | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Source |

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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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