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title: Above all, how will you ever be able to look in the face of my siste… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: Above all, how will you ever be able to look in the face of my sister, the mother of Ting Lang?” Who acts: you. 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 86

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Above all, how will you ever be able to look in the face of my sister, the mother of Ting Lang?”

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** be, look · **To what, where:** all

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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), 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:pg75089:19:86
# text = Above all, how will you ever be able to look in the face of my sister, the mother of Ting Lang?”
1	Above	above	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
5	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	9	advmod	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
9	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Ting	Ting	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	Lang	Lang	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | future | you |  |  | all | ever | able *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **look** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in the face of my sister and the mother of Ting | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in face=Theme |

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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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