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title: After passing the time of day, he remarked on the beauty of Mr. Kao’… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: After passing the time of day, he remarked on the beauty of Mr. Kao’s writing and his evident familiarity with the Chinese Classics; “Neither do you look to me to be a man of the common people or one who should be in this prison dress.” Who acts: Yang, Neither, common people, Kao. A sentence of «Gle
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 2, sentence 82

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After passing the time of day, he remarked on the beauty of Mr. Kao’s writing and his evident familiarity with the Chinese Classics; “Neither do you look to me to be a man of the common people or one who should be in this prison dress.”

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**Who acts:** Yang, Neither, common people, Kao · **What happens:** pass, remark, look, be, write · **To what, where:** beauty, Yang, man, one prison dress · **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 (Yang, Neither, common people, Kao), 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:pg75089:18:82
# text = After passing the time of day, he remarked on the beauty of Mr. Kao’s writing and his evident familiarity with the Chinese Classics; “Neither do you look to me to be a man of the common people or one who should be in this prison dress.”
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	passing	pass	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	remarked	remark	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:desc	_	_
15	Kao	Kao	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’s	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	writing	writing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	evident	evident	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	familiarity	familiarity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	Classics	classic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
27	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	Neither	neither	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	31	nsubj	_	_
29	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	parataxis	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	obl	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
35	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	cop	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	advcl	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nmod	_	_
42	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	50	nummod	_	_
44	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	50	nsubj	_	_
45	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	50	aux	_	_
46	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	50	cop	_	_
47	in	in	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
48	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	50	det	_	_
49	prison	prison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	compound	_	_
50	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | gerund | Yang *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **remark** *speech: assert* | participle | Yang |  |  | the beauty of Kao  Mr.'s writing and Yang's evident familiarity with the Chinese Classics |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **look** *in a quote* | present · do-support | Neither |  | Yang |  |  | you *nsubj* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to i=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Neither *not said here* | a man |  |  |  | of the common people | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** *in a quote* | should | the common people |  |  | this one prison dress |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **write** |  | Kao  Mr. |  |  |  |  |  | nom writing «act 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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