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title: “You are annoying my lady, you certainly lack all marks of the super… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: “You are annoying my lady, you certainly lack all marks of the superior man,” and with that she threw a handful of incense ashes in his eyes, and taking her lady by the hand, they ran to the chair and told the chairmen to go home at once as fast as possible. Who acts: You, woman, marks. A sentence o
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 1, sentence 35

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“You are annoying my lady, you certainly lack all marks of the superior man,” and with that she threw a handful of incense ashes in his eyes, and taking her lady by the hand, they ran to the chair and told the chairmen to go home at once as fast as possible.

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**Who acts:** You, woman, marks · **What happens:** annoy, lack, throw, take, run, tell · **To what, where:** lady, marks, handful, eyes, chairmen, superior man · **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 (You, woman, marks), 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:pg75089:17:35
# text = “You are annoying my lady, you certainly lack all marks of the superior man,” and with that she threw a handful of incense ashes in his eyes, and taking her lady by the hand, they ran to the chair and told the chairmen to go home at once as fast as possible.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	annoying	annoy	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	42	ccomp	_	_
5	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	lack	lack	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	marks	mark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	superior	superior	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	obl	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	handful	handful	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	incense	incense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	ashes	ash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
35	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
37	by	by	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
41	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
42	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
43	to	to	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	chair	chair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
47	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	conj	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	chairmen	chairman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	iobj	_	_
50	to	to	PART	TO	_	51	mark	_	_
51	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	xcomp	_	_
52	home	home	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	_
53	at	at	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	51	obl	_	_
55	as	as	ADV	RB	_	56	advmod	_	_
56	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	51	advmod	_	_
57	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	58	mark	_	_
58	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	42	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **annoy** *in a quote* | present · progressive | You | my lady |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus lady=Experiencer |
| 2 | **lack** *in a quote* | present | you | all marks of the superior man |  |  |  | certainly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **throw** | past | woman | a handful of incense ashes |  | man's eyes |  | with that | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent handful=Theme in eye=Destination |
| 4 | **take** | gerund | You *not said here* |  | woman's lady |  |  | by the hand | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument lady=Destination |
| 5 | **run** | past | marks *= mark* |  |  |  |  | to the chair | tree rules |
| 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | marks *= mark* *not said here* |  | the chairmen |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent chairman=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 7 | **go** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | marks *= mark* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | fast, home *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at once=Location |
| 8 | **mark** *in a quote* |  |  | the superior man |  |  |  |  | nom mark «cognition transitive»: of=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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