Gleanings from Chinese folklore, The Jade Treasure, sentence 15

A few days after the man again appeared and plead his cause so earnestly that a more expert workman was called who said, after careful examination, “Only stone, common stone.”

Who acts: few days, man · What happens: appear, plead, call, say, cause · To what, where: cause, more expert workman · 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 (few days, man), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 days	det
2	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 days	amod
3	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 appeared	nsubj
4	after	after	ADP	_	6 man	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 man	det
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 days	nmod
7	again	again	ADV	_	8 appeared	advmod
8	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 plead	cc
10	plead	plead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 appeared	conj
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 cause	nmod:poss
12	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 plead	obj
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 earnestly	advmod
14	earnestly	earnestly	ADV	_	10 plead	advmod
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 called	mark
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 workman	det
17	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 workman	amod
18	expert	expert	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 workman	amod
19	workman	workman	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 called	nsubj:pass
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 called	aux:pass
21	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 plead	advcl
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 said	nsubj
23	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 called	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 examination	punct
25	after	after	ADP	_	27 examination	case
26	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 examination	amod
27	examination	examination	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 said	ccomp
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 stone	punct
29	“	"	PUNCT	_	31 stone	punct
30	Only	only	ADV	_	31 stone	advmod
31	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 examination	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 stone	punct
33	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 stone	amod
34	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 examination	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 appeared	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 appeared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	appear	past	a few days after the man		again		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	plead speech: request	present	a few days after the man not said here	man's cause		earnestly property	tree rules
3	call	past · passive		a more expert workman			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
4	say speech: assert	past				who nsubj; careful examination and stone and common stone ccomp	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	cause		man				nom cause «event transitive»: poss=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 15

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Gleanings from Chinese folklore, The Jade Treasure, sentence 15