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description: Yü Yüch Ying said, “Tell them my room is small, I have no man at home, and it is not, therefore, proper for them to enter my place. Who acts: Yü, room, neighbours. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Story of Old China, part 3, with its dependency tree and the 
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 3, sentence 137

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Yü Yüch Ying said, “Tell them my room is small, I have no man at home, and it is not, therefore, proper for them to enter my place.

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**Who acts:** Yü, room, neighbours · **What happens:** say, tell, be, have, not be, enter · **To what, where:** neighbours, man, home, place · **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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Yü, room, neighbours), 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:pg75089:19:137
# text = Yü Yüch Ying said, “Tell them my room is small, I have no man at home, and it is not, therefore, proper for them to enter my place.
1	Yü	Yü	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	Yüch	Yüch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Ying	Ying	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
8	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	iobj	_	_
9	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
16	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	17	det	_	_
17	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
26	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
28	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
29	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
30	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	enter	enter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	advcl	_	_
33	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Yü |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  | neighbours *= neighbour* |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | my room |  |  |  |  | small *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** *in a quote* | present | Yü | no man |  | home |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient |
| 5 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | room |  |  |  |  | proper, therefore *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **enter** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | neighbours *= neighbour* | my place |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme place=Destination |

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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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