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title: I have a beautiful daughter; will you marry her, come and live with… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: I have a beautiful daughter; will you marry her, come and live with us, take my cares upon you; when I am old care for me? Who acts: I, you, my. 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
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 2, sentence 92

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I have a beautiful daughter; will you marry her, come and live with us, take my cares upon you; when I am old care for me?

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**Who acts:** I, you, my · **What happens:** have, marry, come, live, take, be · **To what, where:** beautiful daughter, Ching, cares, old care

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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 (I, you, my), 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:pg75089:18:92
# text = I have a beautiful daughter; will you marry her, come and live with us, take my cares upon you; when I am old care for me?
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
7	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
10	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
19	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	cares	care	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
24	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	28	advmod	_	_
25	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
26	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
27	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
29	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | I | a beautiful daughter |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient |
| 2 | **marry** | future | you | Ching |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
| 3 | **come** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **live** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with us | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with we=Location |
| 5 | **take** | infinitive | you *not said here* | my cares |  |  |  | upon you | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme |
| 6 | **is a** | present | I | old care |  |  |  | for me | tree rules |
| 7 | **care** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom care «act intransitive»: 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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