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title: Let us turn and follow the footsteps of the father during the twelve… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: Let us turn and follow the footsteps of the father during the twelve sad years. Who acts: you, us. 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 73

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Let us turn and follow the footsteps of the father during the twelve sad years.

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**Who acts:** you, us · **What happens:** let, turn, follow · **To what, where:** us, footsteps

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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 (you, us), 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:pg75089:18:73
# text = Let us turn and follow the footsteps of the father during the twelve sad years.
1	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	footsteps	footstep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	during	during	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
14	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **turn** | infinitive | us *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **follow** | infinitive | us *not said here* | the footsteps of the father |  |  | year |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent footstep=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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