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title: “Most mighty one, one word would not explain; I have it all in a doc… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: “Most mighty one, one word would not explain; I have it all in a document which I have here and would beg your Majesty to read. Who acts: Most mighty one, I, Majesty. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Story of Old China, part 4, with its dependency tree and t
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 4, sentence 98

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“Most mighty one, one word would not explain; I have it all in a document which I have here and would beg your Majesty to read.

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**Who acts:** Most mighty one, I, Majesty · **What happens:** not explain, have, beg, read · **To what, where:** Lao, document, Majesty · **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 (Most mighty one, I, Majesty), 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:pg75089:20:98
# text = “Most mighty one, one word would not explain; I have it all in a document which I have here and would beg your Majesty to read.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	amod	_	_
3	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	explain	explain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	document	document	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	obj	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
22	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	beg	beg	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
26	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	Majesty	majesty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **explain** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | would | Most mighty one |  |  |  |  | one word *nsubj* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **have** *in a quote* | present | I | Lao |  | a document; here |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 3 | **have** *in a quote* | present | I | a document |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient |
| 4 | **beg** *speech: request* *in a quote* | would | I *not said here* | your Majesty |  |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent majesty=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **read** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | your Majesty *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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