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title: I give to Hai Jui power to strip you of all rank, and hand you over… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: I give to Hai Jui power to strip you of all rank, and hand you over to the Board of Punishments. Who acts: I. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Story of Old China, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 4, sentence 108

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I give to Hai Jui power to strip you of all rank, and hand you over to the Board of Punishments.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** give, strip, hand over · **To what, where:** Jui power, you, Board

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This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Story of Old China, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg75089:20:108
# text = I give to Hai Jui power to strip you of all rank, and hand you over to the Board of Punishments.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	Hai	Hai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	Jui	Jui	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	strip	strip	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	rank	rank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	hand	hand	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	over	over	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Board	board	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Punishments	punishment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present | I |  | Jui power  Hai |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to power=Recipient |
| 2 | **strip** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | you |  |  |  | of all rank | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent you=Theme of rank=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **hand over** | infinitive | I *not said here* | you |  | the Board of Punishments |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme to board=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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