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title: Call the new ‘Chuang Yuan,’ I will ask him.” — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: Call the new ‘Chuang Yuan,’ I will ask him.” Who acts: you, I. 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 85

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Call the new ‘Chuang Yuan,’ I will ask him.”

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** call, ask · **To what, where:** new Chuang Yuan, Yuan · **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 (you, I), 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:pg75089:20:85
# text = Call the new ‘Chuang Yuan,’ I will ask him.”
1	Call	call	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
3	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
4	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Chuang	Chuang	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Yuan	Yuan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’	'	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | imperative | you *not said here* |  | the new Chuang Yuan |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent yuan=Recipient |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | future | I |  | Yuan |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |

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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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