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title: This time the Prince declared that Han Hsin was entirely foolish, an… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: This time the Prince declared that Han Hsin was entirely foolish, and he would not kill a fool, for a man who did not know the difference between the sweetly fragrant and the offensive was not one a Prince need fear. Who acts: Prince, Han, man, offensive. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklo
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Hero, sentence 47

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This time the Prince declared that Han Hsin was entirely foolish, and he would not kill a fool, for a man who did not know the difference between the sweetly fragrant and the offensive was not one a Prince need fear.

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**Who acts:** Prince, Han, man, offensive · **What happens:** declare, be, not kill, not know, not be, need · **To what, where:** fool, difference, one, fear

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This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Chinese Hero. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, Han, man, offensive), 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:pg75089:9:47
# text = This time the Prince declared that Han Hsin was entirely foolish, and he would not kill a fool, for a man who did not know the difference between the sweetly fragrant and the offensive was not one a Prince need fear.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	declared	declare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
7	Han	Han	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
8	Hsin	Hsin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	entirely	entirely	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	foolish	foolish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	fool	fool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
24	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
25	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
27	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	acl:relcl	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	difference	difference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	between	between	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	sweetly	sweetly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	fragrant	fragrant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	obl	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	offensive	offensive	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
37	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
38	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	39	advmod	_	_
39	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	33	conj	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	_
42	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	acl:relcl	_	_
43	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | the Prince |  |  |  | time | for a man | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | Han |  |  |  |  | entirely, foolish *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **kill** | would | Han | a fool |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fool=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **know** | past · do-support | a man | the difference |  |  |  | between the sweetly fragrant | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer difference=Stimulus |
| 5 | **not** **is a** | past | the offensive | one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **need** | present | a Prince | fear |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot fear=Theme |

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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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