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title: “When a boy finds you, producing these, you will know who he is, and… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: “When a boy finds you, producing these, you will know who he is, and wherever you are you must own him.” Who acts: boy, 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 110

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“When a boy finds you, producing these, you will know who he is, and wherever you are you must own him.”

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**Who acts:** boy, you · **What happens:** find, produce, know, be · **To what, where:** you, these · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (boy, 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:pg75089:17:110
# text = “When a boy finds you, producing these, you will know who he is, and wherever you are you must own him.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	finds	find	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	producing	produce	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	advcl	_	_
9	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	13	ccomp	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
19	wherever	wherever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	24	advmod	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
21	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	own	own	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** *in a quote* | present | a boy | you |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Topic |
| 2 | **produce** *in a quote* | gerund | a boy *not said here* | these |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Result |
| 3 | **know** *in a quote* | future | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | boy |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** *in a quote* | must · present | you |  |  |  |  | boy *obj*; own, wherever *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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