Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 2, sentence 57

He called to her and wept and plead, and at last the dear eye once more looked into his, and he said:

Who acts: Ting · What happens: call, weep, plead, look, say · To what, where: mother · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Story of Old China, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ting), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 called	nsubj
2	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 her	case
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 called	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 wept	cc
6	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 called	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 plead	cc
8	plead	plead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	6 wept	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 looked	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 looked	cc
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 last	case
12	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 looked	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 eye	det
14	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 eye	amod
15	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 last	nsubj
16	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	18 looked	advmod
17	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	18 looked	advmod
18	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 called	parataxis
19	into	into	ADP	_	20 his	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 looked	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 said	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 said	cc
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 said	nsubj
24	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 called	parataxis
25	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	call speech: assert	past	Ting	mother		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient
2	weep	past	Ting not said here			vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	plead speech: request	present	Ting not said here			tree rules
4	look	past			Ting conj; once property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	say speech: assert	past	Ting			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, A Story of Old China, part 2, sentence 57

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 2, sentence 57