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title: Let me tell you the story, and as you listen possibly you can see th… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: Let me tell you the story, and as you listen possibly you can see the dear little children of the great flowery kingdom, many of them looking like little flowers gathered about some old grandma who loves and pets them as do the grandmas of all lands. Who acts: you, me, many, little flowers. A senten
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, How the Dog and Cat Came to Be Enemies, sentence 3

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Let me tell you the story, and as you listen possibly you can see the dear little children of the great flowery kingdom, many of them looking like little flowers gathered about some old grandma who loves and pets them as do the grandmas of all lands.

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**Who acts:** you, me, many, little flowers, old grandma, pets · **What happens:** let, tell, listen, see, look, gather · **To what, where:** me, story, you, dear little children, grandmas · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, How the Dog and Cat Came to Be Enemies. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, me, many, little flowers), 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:pg75089:14:3
# text = Let me tell you the story, and as you listen possibly you can see the dear little children of the great flowery kingdom, many of them looking like little flowers gathered about some old grandma who loves and pets them as do the grandmas of all lands.
1	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	iobj	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
9	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	listen	listen	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
12	possibly	possibly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	flowery	flowery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	nsubj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nmod	_	_
29	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	parataxis	_	_
30	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
31	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
33	gathered	gather	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	advcl	_	_
34	about	about	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	37	det	_	_
36	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	grandma	grandma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
38	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	39	nsubj	_	_
39	loves	love	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	acl:relcl	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
41	pets	pet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	nsubj	_	_
42	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
43	as	as	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
44	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	conj	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	grandmas	grandma	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	obj	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	49	det	_	_
49	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | me *not said here* | the story | you |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient story=Topic |
| 3 | **listen** | present | you |  |  |  |  | possibly *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **see** | can | you | the dear little children of the great flowery kingdom |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus |
| 5 | **look** | gerund | many of stories |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 6 | **gather** | past | little flowers |  |  |  |  | about some old grandma | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **love** | present | some old grandma |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer |
| 8 | **do** | present | pets | the grandmas of all lands |  |  |  | stories *= story* *nsubj* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grandma=Eventuality |

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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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