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title: I entreat, I beg, oh, hear me, Great and Glorious Emperor, spare my… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: I entreat, I beg, oh, hear me, Great and Glorious Emperor, spare my father and let me be your slave forever.” Who acts: I, me. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Daughter of the Orient, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Daughter of the Orient, sentence 32

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I entreat, I beg, oh, hear me, Great and Glorious Emperor, spare my father and let me be your slave forever.”

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**Who acts:** I, me · **What happens:** entreat, beg, hear, spare, let, be · **To what, where:** me, father, slave

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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 (I, me), 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:pg75089:7:32
# text = I entreat, I beg, oh, hear me, Great and Glorious Emperor, spare my father and let me be your slave forever.”
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	entreat	entreat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	beg	beg	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	hear	hear	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
10	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	parataxis	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	Glorious	glorious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	spare	spare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
18	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
22	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	cop	_	_
24	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	slave	slave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	xcomp	_	_
26	forever	forever	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **entreat** | infinitive | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **beg** *speech: request* | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **hear** | infinitive | I *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus |
| 4 | **spare** | infinitive | I *not said here* | my father |  |  |  |  | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent father=Asset |
| 5 | **let** | infinitive | I *not said here* | me |  |  |  | forever *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 6 | **is a** | infinitive | me *not said here* | your slave |  |  |  | your *nmod:poss* | tree rules |

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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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