--- title: Kung Yeh Chang exclaimed as he looked at her and then at the goose a… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics description: Kung Yeh Chang exclaimed as he looked at her and then at the goose away in the distance, “Ai ya [sad, sad], most of mankind are like the sparrow, but the truly superior man will be like the wild goose and follow the rules of the Three Bonds and Five Virtues.” Who acts: Kung Yeh, Yeh, most, superior --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/8/50/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Gleanings from Chinese folklore](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/) / [The Wild Goose and the Sparrow](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/8/) / 50 # Gleanings from Chinese folklore, The Wild Goose and the Sparrow, sentence 50 Kung Yeh Chang exclaimed as he looked at her and then at the goose away in the distance, “Ai ya \[sad, sad\], most of mankind are like the sparrow, but the truly superior man will be like the wild goose and follow the rules of the Three Bonds and Five Virtues.” **Who acts:** Kung Yeh, Yeh, most, superior man, Three Bonds · **What happens:** exclaim, look, be, follow, rule · **To what, where:** rules · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Kung Yeh, Yeh, most, superior man), 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:pg75089:8:50 # text = Kung Yeh Chang exclaimed as he looked at her and then at the goose away in the distance, “Ai ya [sad, sad], most of mankind are like the sparrow, but the truly superior man will be like the wild goose and follow the rules of the Three Bonds and Five Virtues.” 1 Kung kung NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 Yeh Yeh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 Chang Chang PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 flat _ _ 4 exclaimed exclaim VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 as as SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 6 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 ccomp _ _ 8 at at ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obl _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 11 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 14 advmod _ _ 12 at at ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 goose goose NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 15 away away ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 distance distance NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 20 “ " PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 Ai ai NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 22 ya you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 23 [ [ PUNCT -LRB- _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 sad sad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 26 sad sad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ] ] PUNCT -RRB- _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 29 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 35 nsubj _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 mankind mankind NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 32 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 33 like like ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 sparrow sparrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 37 but but CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 39 truly truly ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 40 superior superior ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 nsubj _ _ 42 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 47 aux _ _ 43 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 47 cop _ _ 44 like like ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 46 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 amod _ _ 47 goose goose NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ _ 48 and and CCONJ CC _ 49 cc _ _ 49 follow follow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 47 conj _ _ 50 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 51 rules rule NOUN NNS Number=Plur 49 obj _ _ 52 of of ADP IN _ 55 case _ _ 53 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 55 det _ _ 54 Three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 55 nummod _ _ 55 Bonds bond NOUN NNS Number=Plur 51 nmod _ _ 56 and and CCONJ CC _ 58 cc _ _ 57 Five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 58 nummod _ _ 58 Virtues virtue NOUN NNS Number=Plur 55 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 59 . . PUNCT . _ 49 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 60 ” " PUNCT '' _ 47 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | past | Kung Yeh | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **look** | past | Yeh | | | | | at proverb; the goose in the distance *conj* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | most of mankind | | | | | like the sparrow | tree rules | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | future | the superior man | | | | | like the wild goose | tree rules | | 5 | **follow** *in a quote* | infinitive | the superior man *not said here* | the rules of the Three Bonds and Five Virtues | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Theme | | 6 | **rule** *in a quote* | | the Three Bonds and Five Virtues | | | | | | nom rule «cognition intransitive»: of=agent | 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 49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/8/49/) - next →: [A Chinese Hero, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/9/1/) - ↑ back to [The Wild Goose and the Sparrow](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/8/)