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title: Then when all was quiet Sun Hou said to the pig, “You take one side… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: Then when all was quiet Sun Hou said to the pig, “You take one side and I will the other and don’t be afraid.” Who acts: quiet Sun Hou, pig. 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 pr
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics, sentence 41

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Then when all was quiet Sun Hou said to the pig, “You take one side and I will the other and don’t be afraid.”

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**Who acts:** quiet Sun Hou, pig · **What happens:** be, say, take, not be · **To what, where:** pig, one side · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (quiet Sun Hou, pig), 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:pg75089:16:41
# text = Then when all was quiet Sun Hou said to the pig, “You take one side and I will the other and don’t be afraid.”
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Hou	Hou	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	pig	pig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	_
16	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	do	do	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	cop	_	_
27	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | quiet *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | all quiet Sun Hou |  | the pig |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to pig=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **take** *in a quote* | present | the pig *= pig* | one side |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent side=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support | the pig *= pig* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | afraid *property* | tree rules |

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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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