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title: The Emperor then called his ministers and commanded them to have it… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: The Emperor then called his ministers and commanded them to have it published abroad that from that day the punishment of cutting off the hands and feet of criminals was to be done away with forever. Who acts: Emperor, position, punishment. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie N
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Daughter of the Orient, sentence 36

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The Emperor then called his ministers and commanded them to have it published abroad that from that day the punishment of cutting off the hands and feet of criminals was to be done away with forever.

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**Who acts:** Emperor, position, punishment · **What happens:** call, command, have, publish, cut off, do away · **To what, where:** ministers, position, hands, punishment · **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 (Emperor, position, punishment), 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:pg75089:7:36
# text = The Emperor then called his ministers and commanded them to have it published abroad that from that day the punishment of cutting off the hands and feet of criminals was to be done away with forever.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
4	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	ministers	minister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	commanded	command	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	published	publish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	xcomp	_	_
14	abroad	abroad	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	obj	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
18	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	punishment	punishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
22	cutting	cut	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	acl	_	_
23	off	off	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	criminals	criminal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux:pass	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
32	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	aux:pass	_	_
33	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl:relcl	_	_
34	away	away	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
35	with	with	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	forever	forever	ADV	RB	_	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | past | the Emperor | Emperor's ministers |  |  | then |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent minister=Recipient |
| 2 | **command** | past | the Emperor *not said here* | ministers *= minister* |  |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **have** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the Emperor *not said here* | position |  |  | day | that *obj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **publish** | participle | position *not said here* |  |  |  |  | abroad *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **cut off** | gerund | the punishment *not said here* | the hands and feet of criminals |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector hand=Eventuality |
| 6 | **do away** | past · passive | the Emperor *not said here* | the punishment |  |  |  | away *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |

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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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