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description: When Sun Hou took this message to the king he thanked them and let them go on their way, promising to entertain them on their return. Who acts: Sun, feet. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics, with its dependency t
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics, sentence 111

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When Sun Hou took this message to the king he thanked them and let them go on their way, promising to entertain them on their return.

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**Who acts:** Sun, feet · **What happens:** take, thank, let, go, promise, entertain · **To what, where:** message, king, feet, way, return

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This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sun, feet), 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:pg75089:16:111
# text = When Sun Hou took this message to the king he thanked them and let them go on their way, promising to entertain them on their return.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Hou	Hou	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	message	message	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	thanked	thank	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	promising	promise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	entertain	entertain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | Sun | this message | the king |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent message=Theme to king=Destination |
| 2 | **thank** *speech: thank* | past | Sun | the king *not said here* | feet *= foot* |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 3 | **let** | infinitive | Sun *not said here* | feet *= foot* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **go** | infinitive | feet *= foot* *not said here* |  |  | feet's way |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on way=Location |
| 5 | **promise** *speech: promise* | gerund | Sun *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **entertain** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Sun *not said here* | feet *= foot* |  | feet's return |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer |
| 7 | **return** |  | feet *= foot* |  |  |  |  |  | nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=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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