--- title: Then Sun Hou called the king and said to him, “Look at your great mi… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics description: Then Sun Hou called the king and said to him, “Look at your great ministers; how can you expect the country to grow and improve when your three greatest ministers are such demons? Who acts: Sun, country, three greatest ministers. 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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, country, three greatest ministers), 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:pg75089:16:99 # text = Then Sun Hou called the king and said to him, “Look at your great ministers; how can you expect the country to grow and improve when your three greatest ministers are such demons? 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 2 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 Hou Hou PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 flat _ _ 4 called call VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 “ " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 Look look VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 14 at at ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 16 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 ministers minister NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 22 advmod _ _ 20 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 21 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 expect expect VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 grow grow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 xcomp _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 improve improve VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 conj _ _ 29 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 36 advmod _ _ 30 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 31 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 33 nummod _ _ 32 greatest great ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 33 amod _ _ 33 ministers minister NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nsubj _ _ 34 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 35 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 demons demon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** | past | Sun | | the king | | then | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent king=Recipient | | 2 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | Sun *not said here* | | Sun | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **look** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | at your great ministers | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at minister=Theme | | 4 | **expect** *in a quote* | can | Sun | the country | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **grow** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | the country *not said here* | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **improve** *in a quote* | infinitive | the country *not said here* | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | your three greatest ministers | such demons | | | | | 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 98](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/16/98/) - next →: [sentence 100](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/16/100/) - ↑ back to [T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/16/)