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title: Although I am poor you must not try to make me ashamed, and you need… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: Although I am poor you must not try to make me ashamed, and you need not praise their riches; I may not always be poor and they may not always be rich. Who acts: I, you, riches. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Story of Old China, part 4, with its dependency
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 4, sentence 25

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Although I am poor you must not try to make me ashamed, and you need not praise their riches; I may not always be poor and they may not always be rich.

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**Who acts:** I, you, riches · **What happens:** be, not try, make, not praise, not be · **To what, where:** me, riches

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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, you, riches), 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:pg75089:20:25
# text = Although I am poor you must not try to make me ashamed, and you need not praise their riches; I may not always be poor and they may not always be rich.
1	Although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	advcl	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	ashamed	ashamed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	need	need	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	praise	praise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	riches	rich	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
23	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
25	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	27	advmod	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	cop	_	_
27	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	parataxis	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
29	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
30	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
31	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	34	advmod	_	_
32	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	34	advmod	_	_
33	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	cop	_	_
34	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | poor *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **try** | must | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **make** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | me |  |  |  | ashamed *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset i=Product |
| 4 | **not** **praise** | present | you | riches's riches |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rich=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **is** | may | I |  |  |  |  | always, poor *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **not** **is** | may | riches *= rich* |  |  |  |  | always, rich *property* | 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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