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title: Do you not hear parents and teachers tell their children and scholar… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: Do you not hear parents and teachers tell their children and scholars to come and go quietly by themselves to and from school; to go straight ahead without looking to the right or left; not to gather in groups and chatter like house-sparrows? Who acts: you, parents. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chi
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, The Wild Goose and the Sparrow, sentence 45

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Do you not hear parents and teachers tell their children and scholars to come and go quietly by themselves to and from school; to go straight ahead without looking to the right or left; not to gather in groups and chatter like house-sparrows?

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**Who acts:** you, parents · **What happens:** not hear, tell, come, go, look, not gather · **To what, where:** children, school, groups · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, The Wild Goose and the Sparrow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, parents), 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:pg75089:8:45
# text = Do you not hear parents and teachers tell their children and scholars to come and go quietly by themselves to and from school; to go straight ahead without looking to the right or left; not to gather in groups and chatter like house-sparrows?
1	Do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	hear	hear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
5	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	teachers	teacher	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
8	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	scholars	scholar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
17	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	16	obl	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
27	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	ahead	ahead	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
29	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
30	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	advcl	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	obl	_	_
34	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	left	left	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	39	punct	_	_
37	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	39	advmod	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
39	gather	gather	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
40	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	groups	group	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obl	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	chatter	chatter	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	conj	_	_
44	like	like	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
45	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	45	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	sparrows	sparrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **hear** | present · do-support | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | parents and teachers |  | parents's children and scholars |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent child=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **come** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **go** | infinitive |  |  |  | school |  | by parents *= parent*; quietly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to school=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **go** | to-infinitive | parents and teachers *not said here* |  |  |  |  | ahead *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **look** | gerund | parents and teachers *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the right | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to right=Theme |
| 7 | **not** **gather** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | groups |  |  | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **chatter** | present |  |  |  |  |  | like house sparrows | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: 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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