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title: If you stay on, you will some day all be killed; then who will worsh… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: If you stay on, you will some day all be killed; then who will worship at the grave of your fathers and hand down the name?” Who acts: 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 88

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If you stay on, you will some day all be killed; then who will worship at the grave of your fathers and hand down the name?”

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** stay on, kill, worship, hand down · **To what, where:** you, grave, name

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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 (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:pg75089:9:88
# text = If you stay on, you will some day all be killed; then who will worship at the grave of your fathers and hand down the name?”
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stay	stay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
4	on	on	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
8	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
9	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	all	all	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
14	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
16	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	worship	worship	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	fathers	father	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	hand	hand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
26	down	down	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay on** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **kill** | future · passive |  | you |  |  | day | all *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **worship** | future |  |  |  | the grave of your fathers | then | who *nsubj* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **hand down** | infinitive |  | the name |  |  |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=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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