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title: Give me a few changes of cotton garments; they will fit my station b… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: Give me a few changes of cotton garments; they will fit my station better and I will not appear to be other than I am.” Who acts: you, garments, I, cotton garments. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Story of Old China, part 4, with its dependency tree and the
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 4, sentence 36

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Give me a few changes of cotton garments; they will fit my station better and I will not appear to be other than I am.”

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**Who acts:** you, garments, I, cotton garments · **What happens:** give, fit, not appear, be, change · **To what, where:** few changes, me, station

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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 (you, garments, I, cotton garments), 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:pg75089:20:36
# text = Give me a few changes of cotton garments; they will fit my station better and I will not appear to be other than I am.”
1	Give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	iobj	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	changes	change	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	cotton	cotton	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	garments	garment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	fit	fit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	_
13	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	station	station	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	xcomp	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	appear	appear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	cop	_	_
23	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	obj	_	_
24	than	than	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	_
26	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | imperative | you *not said here* | a few changes of cotton garments | me |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient change=Theme |
| 2 | **fit** | future | garments *= garment* | my station |  |  |  | good *property* | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent station=Patient |
| 3 | **not** **appear** | future | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | than I; other *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **change** |  | cotton garments |  |  |  |  |  | nom change «event intransitive»: of=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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