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title: “I have no wishes or commands, you are able to instruct and have wis… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: “I have no wishes or commands, you are able to instruct and have wisdom for all. Who acts: use, you. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Story of Old China, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 1, sentence 104

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“I have no wishes or commands, you are able to instruct and have wisdom for all.

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**Who acts:** use, you · **What happens:** have, be, instruct · **To what, where:** wishes, wisdom

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This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Story of Old China, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (use, you), 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:pg75089:17:104
# text = “I have no wishes or commands, you are able to instruct and have wisdom for all.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	wishes	wish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	commands	command	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	instruct	instruct	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
16	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** *in a quote* | present | use | no wishes or commands |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Patient |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **instruct** *speech: other* *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **have** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | wisdom |  |  |  | for all | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wisdom=Patient |

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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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