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title: You shall have, by promise of my master, the great Yen Sung, the fin… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: You shall have, by promise of my master, the great Yen Sung, the finest of the land, in robes of silk and satin, servants by tens, jewels fit for an empress, and a most royal home.” Who acts: You, jewels. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Story of Old China, 
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 1, sentence 65

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You shall have, by promise of my master, the great Yen Sung, the finest of the land, in robes of silk and satin, servants by tens, jewels fit for an empress, and a most royal home.”

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**Who acts:** You, jewels · **What happens:** have, fit, promise · **To what, where:** promise, tens, master

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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, jewels), 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:pg75089:17:65
# text = You shall have, by promise of my master, the great Yen Sung, the finest of the land, in robes of silk and satin, servants by tens, jewels fit for an empress, and a most royal home.”
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	promise	promise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	Yen	Yen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Sung	Sung	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	finest	fine	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	nmod	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	robes	robe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	satin	satin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
30	by	by	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	tens	ten	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	jewels	jewel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
34	fit	fit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	acl:relcl	_	_
35	for	for	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	empress	empress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
41	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	42	advmod	_	_
42	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | shall | You | promise of my master and the great Yen Sung  the finest of the land |  |  |  | by tens; a royal home *obl*; robes of silk and satin and servants *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **fit** | present | jewels | tens *not said here* |  |  |  | for a empress | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ten=Patient |
| 3 | **promise** |  |  | my master and the great Yen Sung |  |  |  |  | nom promise «communication 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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