--- title: By this time the goose had finished drinking, and looking up he said… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics description: By this time the goose had finished drinking, and looking up he said, “Don’t you know that in a big tree with many branches and large leaves the cicadas love to gather and make a noise? Who acts: goose, you, cicadas. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (goose, you, cicadas), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg75089:8:17 # text = By this time the goose had finished drinking, and looking up he said, “Don’t you know that in a big tree with many branches and large leaves the cicadas love to gather and make a noise? 1 By by ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 3 det _ _ 3 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 goose goose NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj:pass _ _ 6 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 finished finish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 8 drinking drinking NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 11 looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 advcl _ _ 12 up up ADP RP _ 11 compound:prt _ _ 13 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 “ " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 Do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 18 n’t not PART RB Polarity=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 19 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 parataxis _ _ 21 that that SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 26 with with ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 branches branch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nmod _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 conj _ _ 31 leaves leave VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 advcl _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 cicadas cicada NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nsubj _ _ 34 love love VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 ccomp _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 gather gather VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 xcomp _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 conj _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 noise noise NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ? ? PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **finish** | past · perfect · passive | | the goose | | | time | drinking *obj* | tree rules | | 2 | **look up** | gerund | goose *not said here* | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | goose | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **not** **do** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **know** *in a quote* | present | you | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 6 | **leave** *in a quote* | present | the cicadas *not said here* | | | | | in a big tree with many branches *result* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in tree=Result | | 7 | **love** *in a quote* | present | the cicadas | | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 8 | **gather** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | the cicadas *not said here* | | | | | | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 9 | **make** *in a quote* | infinitive | the cicadas *not said here* | a noise | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset noise=Product | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/8/16/) - next →: [sentence 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/8/18/) - ↑ back to [The Wild Goose and the Sparrow](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/8/)