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title: You dry your tears and stay here with me a few days, and I promise y… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: You dry your tears and stay here with me a few days, and I promise you, you will yet be a happy boy.” Who acts: You, I. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Story of Old China, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 3, sentence 8

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You dry your tears and stay here with me a few days, and I promise you, you will yet be a happy boy.”

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**Who acts:** You, I · **What happens:** dry, stay, promise, be · **To what, where:** tears, you, happy boy

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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 (You, I), 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:pg75089:19:8
# text = You dry your tears and stay here with me a few days, and I promise you, you will yet be a happy boy.”
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	dry	dry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
7	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	promise	promise	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
20	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
21	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	cop	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dry** | present | You | your tears |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient tear=Result |
| 2 | **stay** | infinitive | You *not said here* |  |  | here | day | with me | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with i=Location |
| 3 | **promise** *speech: promise* | present | I |  | you |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | future | you | a happy boy |  |  | yet |  | tree rules |

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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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