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title: “We invite our mother to take her chair, leaving this little court a… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: “We invite our mother to take her chair, leaving this little court and room, and go with us to enjoy the pleasures and blessings granted by Heaven to the restored House of Tu.” Who acts: We, mother. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Story of Old China, part 5
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 5, sentence 3

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“We invite our mother to take her chair, leaving this little court and room, and go with us to enjoy the pleasures and blessings granted by Heaven to the restored House of Tu.”

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**Who acts:** We, mother · **What happens:** invite, take, leave, go, enjoy, grant · **To what, where:** mother, chair, little court, pleasures, restored House

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This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Story of Old China, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, mother), 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:pg75089:21:3
# text = “We invite our mother to take her chair, leaving this little court and room, and go with us to enjoy the pleasures and blessings granted by Heaven to the restored House of Tu.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	invite	invite	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	chair	chair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
12	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
13	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	enjoy	enjoy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	pleasures	pleasure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	blessings	blessing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	_
28	granted	grant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	acl	_	_
29	by	by	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Heaven	Heaven	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	restored	restore	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	amod	_	_
34	House	House	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	Tu	Tu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **invite** *in a quote* | present | We | our mother |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent mother=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **take** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | our mother *not said here* | her chair |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chair=Theme |
| 3 | **leave** *in a quote* | gerund | our mother *not said here* | this little court and room |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent court=Theme |
| 4 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | with us | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with we=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **enjoy** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | the pleasures and blessings |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pleasure=Stimulus |
| 6 | **grant** *in a quote* | participle |  | the pleasures and blessings *not said here* | the restored House of Tu |  |  | by Heaven | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to house=Goal |
| 7 | **restore** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: 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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