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title: He told her what medicine to get, and how to care for it, and made h… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: He told her what medicine to get, and how to care for it, and made her promise to stay with her lady as long as she lived. Who acts: husband, promise, mistress. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Story of Old China, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 2, sentence 3

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He told her what medicine to get, and how to care for it, and made her promise to stay with her lady as long as she lived.

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**Who acts:** husband, promise, mistress · **What happens:** tell, get, care, make, stay, live · **To what, where:** mistress, promise · **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 (husband, promise, mistress), 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:pg75089:18:3
# text = He told her what medicine to get, and how to care for it, and made her promise to stay with her lady as long as she lived.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	iobj	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	ccomp	_	_
5	medicine	medicine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	care	care	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	promise	promise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	as	as	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	21	advmod	_	_
27	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | husband |  | mistress |  |  | what  medicine *ccomp* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **get** | to-infinitive | husband *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **care** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | for medicine | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for it=Theme |
| 4 | **make** | past | husband *not said here* | mistress's promise |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **stay** | to-infinitive | mistress's promise *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with mistress's lady; long *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with lady=Location |
| 6 | **live** | past | mistress |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **promise** |  | mistress |  |  |  |  |  | nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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