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title: Then, turning to Hai Jui, he commanded him to call soldiers, to then… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: Then, turning to Hai Jui, he commanded him to call soldiers, to then and there take him to prison; to see that a day was appointed for trial. Who acts: Hai. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Story of Old China, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 4, sentence 110

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Then, turning to Hai Jui, he commanded him to call soldiers, to then and there take him to prison; to see that a day was appointed for trial.

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**Who acts:** Hai · **What happens:** turn, command, call, take, see, appoint · **To what, where:** Hai, evil, soldiers, prison · **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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hai), 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:pg75089:20:110
# text = Then, turning to Hai Jui, he commanded him to call soldiers, to then and there take him to prison; to see that a day was appointed for trial.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	turning	turn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Hai	Hai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	Jui	Jui	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	commanded	command	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
13	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	conj	_	_
19	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	prison	prison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl:unmarked	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	appointed	appoint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	ccomp	_	_
31	for	for	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	trial	trial	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | gerund | Hai *not said here* |  | Hai |  | then |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to hai=Result |
| 2 | **command** | past | Hai | evil |  |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **call** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Hai *not said here* | soldiers |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent soldier=Recipient |
| 4 | **take** | infinitive | Hai *not said here* | evil |  | prison |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to prison=Destination |
| 5 | **see** | to-infinitive | Hai *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 6 | **appoint** | past · passive |  |  |  |  | day | for trial | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP» |

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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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