--- title: After looking at them Sun Hou said to the pig, “You impersonate the… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics description: After looking at them Sun Hou said to the pig, “You impersonate the girl and I will the boy;” the pig shook himself three times, and the father said, “Well done.” Who acts: Sun, pig, father. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sun, pig, father), 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:pg75089:16:37 # text = After looking at them Sun Hou said to the pig, “You impersonate the girl and I will the boy;” the pig shook himself three times, and the father said, “Well done.” 1 After after SCONJ IN _ 2 mark _ _ 2 looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 advcl _ _ 3 at at ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obl _ _ 5 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 6 Hou Hou PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 flat _ _ 7 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 pig pig NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 “ " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 impersonate impersonate VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 18 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 19 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ” " PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 pig pig NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 shook shake VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 27 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 26 obj _ _ 28 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 29 nummod _ _ 29 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 34 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 “ " PUNCT `` _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 Well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 38 advmod _ _ 38 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 34 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ” " PUNCT '' _ 26 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | gerund | Sun *not said here* | | | | | at children *= child* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Sun | | the pig | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to pig=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **impersonate** *in a quote* | present | the pig *= pig* | the girl | | | | | vn patent-101 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Theme | | 4 | **boy** *in a quote* | future | Sun | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **shake** | past | the pig | Sun | | | time | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent himself=Patient | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the father | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **do** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | well *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/16/36/) - next →: [sentence 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/16/38/) - ↑ back to [T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/16/)