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title: “The great man, the new Chuang Yuan, has come for his honoured mothe… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: “The great man, the new Chuang Yuan, has come for his honoured mother, the Lady Yü.” Who acts: great man. 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 125

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“The great man, the new Chuang Yuan, has come for his honoured mother, the Lady Yü.”

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**Who acts:** great man · **What happens:** come, honour

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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 (great man), 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:pg75089:20:125
# text = “The great man, the new Chuang Yuan, has come for his honoured mother, the Lady Yü.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	Chuang	Chuang	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Yuan	Yuan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
11	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	honoured	honour	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	_
16	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Lady	Lady	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Yü	Yü	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** *in a quote* | present · perfect | the great man and the new Chuang Yuan |  |  |  |  | for Man's honoured mother | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **honour** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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