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title: Thus, in comfort and joy, the twelve years passed away; Mr. Hu thank… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus, in comfort and joy, the twelve years passed away; Mr. Hu thanking the gods for giving him such a son, content that old age should come to him and his old wife under these most auspicious circumstances. Who acts: twelve years, Hu, old age. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nell
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 2, sentence 106

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Thus, in comfort and joy, the twelve years passed away; Mr. Hu thanking the gods for giving him such a son, content that old age should come to him and his old wife under these most auspicious circumstances.

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**Who acts:** twelve years, Hu, old age · **What happens:** pass away, thank, give, come · **To what, where:** comfort, content, gods, son, Hu

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This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Story of Old China, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (twelve years, Hu, old age), 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:pg75089:18:106
# text = Thus, in comfort and joy, the twelve years passed away; Mr. Hu thanking the gods for giving him such a son, content that old age should come to him and his old wife under these most auspicious circumstances.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	comfort	comfort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
12	away	away	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
14	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:desc	_	_
15	Hu	Hu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	thanking	thank	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	iobj	_	_
22	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	24	det:predet	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	content	content	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
27	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
28	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
30	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	acl	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obl	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
35	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
36	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	_
38	under	under	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
39	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	42	det	_	_
40	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	41	advmod	_	_
41	auspicious	auspicious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	circumstances	circumstance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass away** | participle | the twelve years |  |  | comfort and joy |  | away, thus *property* | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **thank** *speech: thank* | gerund | Hu  Mr. | content | the gods |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent god=Theme |
| 3 | **give** | gerund | Hu  Mr. *not said here* | such son | Hu |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient son=Theme |
| 4 | **come** | should | old age | content *not said here* | son |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location content=Theme |

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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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