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title: He said, “You call up a great cold wind, bring snow and ice and free… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: He said, “You call up a great cold wind, bring snow and ice and freeze over the river, then when they get half-way over the river, you call your friends to help you and put your strength together and cause the ice to give way and precipitate them all into the river.” Who acts: king, You, snow, ice. 
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics, sentence 47

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He said, “You call up a great cold wind, bring snow and ice and freeze over the river, then when they get half-way over the river, you call your friends to help you and put your strength together and cause the ice to give way and precipitate them all into the river.”

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**Who acts:** king, You, snow, ice · **What happens:** say, call up, bring, freeze, get, call · **To what, where:** great cold wind, snow, river, half way, friends, you · **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 (king, You, snow, ice), 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:pg75089:16:47
# text = He said, “You call up a great cold wind, bring snow and ice and freeze over the river, then when they get half-way over the river, you call your friends to help you and put your strength together and cause the ice to give way and precipitate them all into the river.”
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
14	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	freeze	freeze	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
19	over	over	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	26	advmod	_	_
24	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	26	advmod	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
27	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	29	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
30	over	over	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
36	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obj	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
39	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	advcl	_	_
40	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	39	obj	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	conj	_	_
43	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
44	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	_
45	together	together	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
47	cause	cause	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	conj	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obj	_	_
50	to	to	PART	TO	_	51	mark	_	_
51	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	xcomp	_	_
52	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obj	_	_
53	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
54	precipitate	precipitate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	51	conj	_	_
55	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	obj	_	_
56	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	55	nmod:unmarked	_	_
57	into	into	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
58	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
59	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | king |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **call up** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | You | a great cold wind |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **bring** *in a quote* | infinitive | You *not said here* | snow and ice |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent snow=Theme |
| 4 | **freeze** *in a quote* | infinitive | You *not said here* |  |  | the river |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **get** *in a quote* | present | snow | half way |  | the river | then |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus |
| 6 | **call** *in a quote* | present | you |  | your friends |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent friend=Recipient |
| 7 | **help** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  | you |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary |
| 8 | **put** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | your strength |  |  |  | together *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent strength=Goal |
| 9 | **cause** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | the ice |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 10 | **give** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the ice *not said here* | way |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme |
| 11 | **precipitate** *in a quote* | infinitive | the ice *not said here* | friends *= friend* |  | the river |  |  | 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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