Gleanings from Chinese folklore, The Jade Treasure, sentence 12

The man plead so hard that the Emperor sent out and called in some expert workmen in precious stones, and they also looked lightly upon it and said, “Only stone, only stone.”

Who acts: man, Emperor, mountains · What happens: plead, send out, call, look, say · To what, where: expert workmen · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, The Jade Treasure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, Emperor, mountains), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 plead	nsubj
3	plead	plead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 hard	advmod
5	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 plead	advmod
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 sent	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Emperor	det
8	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 sent	nsubj
9	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 plead	advcl
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 sent	compound:prt
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 called	cc
12	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 sent	conj
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 workmen	case
14	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	16 workmen	det
15	expert	expert	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 workmen	amod
16	workmen	workman	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 called	obl
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 stones	case
18	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 stones	amod
19	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 workmen	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 looked	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 looked	cc
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 looked	nsubj
23	also	also	ADV	_	24 looked	advmod
24	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 plead	parataxis
25	lightly	lightly	ADV	_	24 looked	advmod
26	upon	upon	ADP	_	27 it	case
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 looked	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 said	cc
29	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 looked	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 stone	punct
31	“	"	PUNCT	_	33 stone	punct
32	Only	only	ADV	_	33 stone	advmod
33	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 said	ccomp
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 stone	punct
35	only	only	ADV	_	36 stone	advmod
36	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 stone	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 plead	punct
38	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 plead	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	plead speech: request	present	the man		hard property	tree rules
2	send out	past	the Emperor			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	call	participle	the Emperor not said here	some expert workmen in precious stones		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	look	past	mountains = mountain		upon stone; lightly property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon it=Theme
5	say speech: assert	past	mountains = mountain not said here		stone and stone ccomp	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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.

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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🌲 Gleanings from Chinese folklore, The Jade Treasure, sentence 12

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, The Jade Treasure, sentence 12