--- title: The owner of the place replied, “I am able to give what you ask, but… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics description: The owner of the place replied, “I am able to give what you ask, but not to-night as I am in great trouble.” Who acts: owner, you. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/16/27/) [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/) / [T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhi…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/16/) / 27 # Gleanings from Chinese folklore, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics, sentence 27 The owner of the place replied, “I am able to give what you ask, but not to-night as I am in great trouble.” **Who acts:** owner, you · **What happens:** reply, be, give, ask · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (owner, 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:pg75089:16:27 # text = The owner of the place replied, “I am able to give what you ask, but not to-night as I am in great trouble.” 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 owner owner NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 replied reply VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 “ " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 10 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 11 able able ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 ccomp _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 xcomp _ _ 14 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 16 obj _ _ 15 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 ask ask VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 18 but but CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 19 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 22 advmod _ _ 20 to to ADP IN _ 22 case _ SpaceAfter=No 21 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl:unmarked _ _ 23 as as ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 24 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 25 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 trouble trouble NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 . . PUNCT . _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 ” " PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | the owner of the place | | | | night | | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the owner of the place *= owner* | | | | | able *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **give** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the owner of the place *= owner* *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | present | you | | | | | what *obj* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient | | 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the owner of the place *= owner* | | | | | as great trouble | tree rules | 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 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/16/26/) - next →: [sentence 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/16/28/) - ↑ back to [T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/16/)