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title: He said to his steward, “This is well; you shall have her for wife,… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: He said to his steward, “This is well; you shall have her for wife, and I will help you and thus reward your many efforts in my behalf.” Who acts: way, This, steward. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Story of Old China, part 1, with its dependency tree and t
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 1, sentence 43

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He said to his steward, “This is well; you shall have her for wife, and I will help you and thus reward your many efforts in my behalf.”

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**Who acts:** way, This, steward · **What happens:** say, be, have, help, reward · **To what, where:** steward, official, many efforts, behalf · **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 (way, This, steward), 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:pg75089:17:43
# text = He said to his steward, “This is well; you shall have her for wife, and I will help you and thus reward your many efforts in my behalf.”
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	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	steward	steward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
15	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	parataxis	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	reward	reward	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
27	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	efforts	effort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	behalf	behalf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	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 | way |  | way's steward |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to steward=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | This |  |  |  |  | well *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** *in a quote* | shall | way's steward *= steward* | official |  |  |  | for wife | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
| 4 | **help** *in a quote* | future | way |  | way's steward *= steward* |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **reward** *in a quote* | infinitive | way *not said here* | your many efforts |  | my behalf |  | thus *property* | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent effort=Recipient |

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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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