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title: The kite came to rest for a few moments, and they heard a voice say,… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: The kite came to rest for a few moments, and they heard a voice say, “You all have old and young in your homes. Who acts: kite, officers, voice, You. 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 86

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The kite came to rest for a few moments, and they heard a voice say, “You all have old and young in your homes.

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**Who acts:** kite, officers, voice, You · **What happens:** come, rest, hear, say, have · **To what, where:** voice · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (kite, officers, voice, You), 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:pg75089:9:86
# text = The kite came to rest for a few moments, and they heard a voice say, “You all have old and young in your homes.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	kite	kite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	moments	moment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	nmod:unmarked	_	_
21	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
22	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	xcomp	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	conj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	homes	home	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the kite |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **rest** | to-infinitive | the kite *not said here* |  |  |  | moment |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **hear** | past | officers *= officer* | a voice |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a voice *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **have** *in a quote* | present | You |  |  |  |  | old *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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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