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description: Then he commanded that a palace be found and put in order for the new Chuang Yuan and his brother; that in the third day all officials were to call on him and make his acquaintance. Who acts: evil, officials. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Story of Old Chi
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 4, sentence 111

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Then he commanded that a palace be found and put in order for the new Chuang Yuan and his brother; that in the third day all officials were to call on him and make his acquaintance.

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**Who acts:** evil, officials · **What happens:** command, find, put, call, make, acquaint · **To what, where:** palace, order, acquaintance · **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 (evil, officials), 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:pg75089:20:111
# text = Then he commanded that a palace be found and put in order for the new Chuang Yuan and his brother; that in the third day all officials were to call on him and make his acquaintance.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	commanded	command	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	Chuang	Chuang	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Yuan	Yuan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	nsubj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	26	amod	_	_
26	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
27	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	28	det	_	_
28	officials	official	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
29	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	acl:relcl	_	_
32	on	on	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obl	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	conj	_	_
36	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	acquaintance	acquaintance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **command** | past | evil |  |  |  | then; day |  | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **find** | infinitive · passive |  | a palace |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 3 | **put** | participle |  |  |  | order |  | for the new Chuang Yuan and evil's brother | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in order=Destination |
| 4 | **call** | past | all officials |  |  |  |  | on evil | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **make** | infinitive | all officials *not said here* | evil's acquaintance |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset acquaintance=Product |
| 6 | **acquaint** |  | evil |  |  |  |  |  | nom acquaintance «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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