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title: The boy said, “I am Ting Lang and am come in search of my father, Tu… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: The boy said, “I am Ting Lang and am come in search of my father, Tu Ching Ling, known by the name of Kao. Who acts: boy. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Story of Old China, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 2, sentence 111

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The boy said, “I am Ting Lang and am come in search of my father, Tu Ching Ling, known by the name of Kao.

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**Who acts:** boy · **What happens:** say, be, come, know, search, name · **To what, where:** Ting, search, Tu, father, Kao · **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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), 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:pg75089:18:111
# text = The boy said, “I am Ting Lang and am come in search of my father, Tu Ching Ling, known by the name of Kao.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	Ting	Ting	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	ccomp	_	_
9	Lang	Lang	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	search	search	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	Tu	Tu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
20	Ching	Ching	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	flat	_	_
21	Ling	Ling	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
24	by	by	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Kao	Kao	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | the boy |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | the boy *= boy* | Ting |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **come** *in a quote* | present | the boy *not said here* |  |  | search of my father |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in search=Location |
| 4 | **know** *in a quote* | participle |  | Tu *not said here* |  |  |  | by the name of Kao | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **search** *in a quote* |  |  | my father |  |  |  |  | nom search «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 6 | **name** *in a quote* |  |  | Kao |  |  |  |  | nom name «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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