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title: Then Hu Yüch Ying said, “If indeed you will listen to me, I will for… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Hu Yüch Ying said, “If indeed you will listen to me, I will forgive you.” Who acts: Hu, 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 98

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Then Hu Yüch Ying said, “If indeed you will listen to me, I will forgive you.”

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**Who acts:** Hu, you · **What happens:** say, listen, forgive · **To what, where:** Hu, you · **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 (Hu, 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:pg75089:19:98
# text = Then Hu Yüch Ying said, “If indeed you will listen to me, I will forgive you.”
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	Hu	Hu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	Yüch	Yüch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	Ying	Ying	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	listen	listen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	forgive	forgive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	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 | Hu |  |  |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **listen** *in a quote* | future | you |  | Hu |  |  | indeed *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to i=Theme |
| 3 | **forgive** *in a quote* | future | Hu | you |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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