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title: To honour this event, for three days the workmen shall feast on meat… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: To honour this event, for three days the workmen shall feast on meat and flour, and we will have a great house-feast for three days, that all the friends and relatives may know of our joy. Who acts: workmen, we, friends, our. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 3, sentence 122

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To honour this event, for three days the workmen shall feast on meat and flour, and we will have a great house-feast for three days, that all the friends and relatives may know of our joy.

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**Who acts:** workmen, we, friends, our · **What happens:** honour, feast, have, know, joy · **To what, where:** event, great house feast

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This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Story of Old China, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (workmen, we, friends, our), 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:pg75089:19:122
# text = To honour this event, for three days the workmen shall feast on meat and flour, and we will have a great house-feast for three days, that all the friends and relatives may know of our joy.
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	honour	honour	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	event	event	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	workmen	workman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
11	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	feast	feast	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	flour	flour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
23	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
24	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
29	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
31	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
32	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	34	det:predet	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nsubj	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	relatives	relative	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	conj	_	_
37	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **honour** | to-infinitive |  | this event |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **feast** | shall | the workmen |  |  |  | day | on meat and flour | vn dine-39.5 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on meat=Patient |
| 3 | **have** | future | we | a great house feast |  |  | for three days |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feast=Patient |
| 4 | **know** | may | all friends and relatives |  |  |  |  | of our joy | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of joy=Stimulus |
| 5 | **joy** |  | our |  |  |  |  |  | nom joy «feeling 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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