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劉基《賣柑者言》 — the matched-shape inventory, frozen before the rendering

Enumerated under R40 §1, whose criteria were fixed in the regime file before this enumeration began. Sentence numbers are ../copy-text-adopted.txt's.

The strength of this freeze, stated exactly. The regime's criteria were written first; this inventory was committed to the repository before the rendering file existed. It is nevertheless a weaker freeze than R39's: in the course of testing whether §1's criteria were applicable to this text at all, the hand tried English at several loci. R39's inventory for the Arabic chapter was frozen with no English attempted anywhere. That difference is declared here rather than claimed away, and it is a limit on any claim this rendering supports about resource choice.

0. Two thresholds, declared here before the enumeration

1. A member must be at least two characters. Single-character members inside a lexicalised binome — 寒／暑, 口／鼻, 籩／豆, 賓／客, 孫／吳, 伊／皋 — are below the threshold and are not loci in themselves. They remain available as matched positions inside a larger locus. Without this threshold every antonymic compound in Classical Chinese is a matched-shape figure and the class stops meaning anything, exactly as R38 declined «بعض … بعض» as a property of the construction rather than a choice made at that place.
2. A maximal uninterrupted series is one locus. Where three or four members stand in series and all of them satisfy (i)–(iii) together, the series is enumerated once, with its member count recorded — not as two or three overlapping two-member loci. A larger span whose only matched structure is the concatenation of admitted loci is not separately admitted.

1. The inventory — 12 loci

SHAPE-a = 對偶 proper, no character shared between members · SHAPE-b = 排比, a frame recurs.

1.1 The counts this inventory exists to produce

These rates are not comparable with the Arabic chapter's. T-kalila-fanza-R39-v1 counts loci per 100 words; this counts per 100 characters, the classical Chinese character being roughly a word, and the two censuses use different source-side criteria because the two languages match by different means. The number that is comparable across the two is the English one — which resource (A)–(D) the hand used — because R40 imports R39's resource table verbatim.

2. The loci the rule declined, and why — R40 rule 1

One decline is worth naming twice. Sentence 15 sets four six-character members marching and then puts an eight-character member at the end — 坐糜廩粟而不知恥, they sit consuming the granary's grain and know no shame. Under R40 rule 4 the rendering may put no matched-shape figure outside the inventory, so the English must break its measure at exactly that clause. A hand who tidied the fifth member into the pattern would be improving the Chinese.