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title: So, calling up his men to make a lot of bags, even turning their clo… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: So, calling up his men to make a lot of bags, even turning their clothes into bags, his army set out. Who acts: army. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Chinese Hero, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Hero, sentence 69

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So, calling up his men to make a lot of bags, even turning their clothes into bags, his army set out.

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**Who acts:** army · **What happens:** call up, make, turn, set out · **To what, where:** men, lot, clothes, bags

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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 (army), 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:pg75089:9:69
# text = So, calling up his men to make a lot of bags, even turning their clothes into bags, his army set out.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	calling	call	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	bags	bag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	even	even	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	turning	turn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	15	obj	_	_
18	into	into	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	bags	bag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
24	out	out	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call up** *speech: assert* | gerund | Han's army *not said here* |  | Han's men |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent man=Recipient |
| 2 | **make** | to-infinitive | Han's army *not said here* | a lot of bags |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset lot=Product |
| 3 | **turn** | gerund | Han's army *not said here* | bags's clothes |  | bags |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent clothes=Theme into bag=Trajectory |
| 4 | **set out** | past | Han's army |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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