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title: You do, indeed, chatter about small affairs like foolish women and g… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: You do, indeed, chatter about small affairs like foolish women and girls and thus are beneath my notice and I bid you good-day.” Who acts: You, I. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, The Wild Goose and the Sparrow, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, The Wild Goose and the Sparrow, sentence 48

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You do, indeed, chatter about small affairs like foolish women and girls and thus are beneath my notice and I bid you good-day.”

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**Who acts:** You, I · **What happens:** do, chatter, be, bid · **To what, where:** you

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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, I), 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:pg75089:8:48
# text = You do, indeed, chatter about small affairs like foolish women and girls and thus are beneath my notice and I bid you good-day.”
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	chatter	chatter	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
7	about	about	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	affairs	affair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	foolish	foolish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
17	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
18	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	notice	notice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	bid	bid	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present | You |  |  |  |  | indeed *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **chatter** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | about small affairs like foolish women and girls and my notice | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about affair=Topic |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | beneath my notice; my *nmod:poss*; thus *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **bid** | past | I | you |  |  | day |  | 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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