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title: She finished with, “O Great Emperor, I entreat you to allow me to be… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: She finished with, “O Great Emperor, I entreat you to allow me to become one of your slaves and thus redeem my father’s mistake, and secure his pardon. Who acts: Glory, father, Emperor. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Daughter of the Orient, with its depend
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Daughter of the Orient, sentence 29

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She finished with, “O Great Emperor, I entreat you to allow me to become one of your slaves and thus redeem my father’s mistake, and secure his pardon.

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**Who acts:** Glory, father, Emperor · **What happens:** finish, entreat, allow, become, redeem, secure · **To what, where:** you, Glory, one, mistake, pardon · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Daughter of the Orient. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Glory, father, Emperor), 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:pg75089:7:29
# text = She finished with, “O Great Emperor, I entreat you to allow me to become one of your slaves and thus redeem my father’s mistake, and secure his pardon.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	finished	finish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	_
7	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	entreat	entreat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	allow	allow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
15	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	iobj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
18	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	slaves	slave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	redeem	redeem	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
25	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	’s	's	PART	POS	_	26	case	_	_
28	mistake	mistake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	secure	secure	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	pardon	pardon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **finish** | past | Glory |  |  |  |  | with Great Emperor | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **entreat** *in a quote* | present | Glory |  | you |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
| 3 | **allow** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Glory *not said here* |  | Glory |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer i=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **become** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | Glory *not said here* | one of your slaves |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient one=Result |
| 5 | **redeem** *in a quote* | infinitive | Glory *not said here* | my father's mistake |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mistake=Theme |
| 6 | **secure** *in a quote* | infinitive | Glory *not said here* | Emperor's pardon |  |  |  |  | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition pardon=Theme |
| 7 | **mistake** *in a quote* |  | my father |  |  |  |  |  | nom mistake «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 8 | **pardon** *in a quote* |  | Emperor |  |  |  |  |  | nom pardon «act transitive»: poss=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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