Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 3, sentence 83

Think of the long, weary way he has come seeking you; ah! the heart of an iron or a stone man must have cried out at such sorrow as has been theirs.

Who acts: you, boy, sorrow · What happens: think, come, seek, cry out, be · To what, where: long weary way, you, heart, such sorrow, sorrow · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Story of Old China, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, boy, sorrow), 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	Think	think	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	7 way	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 way	det
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 way	amod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 long	punct
6	weary	weary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 way	amod
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Think	obl
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 come	nsubj
9	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 come	aux
10	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 way	acl:relcl
11	seeking	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 come	xcomp
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 seeking	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	1 Think	punct
14	ah	ah	INTJ	_	1 Think	discourse
15	!	!	PUNCT	_	17 heart	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 heart	det
17	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 cried	nsubj:pass
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 iron	case
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 iron	det
20	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 heart	nmod
21	or	or	CCONJ	_	24 man	cc
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 man	det
23	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 man	compound
24	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 iron	conj
25	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 cried	aux
26	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 cried	aux
27	cried	cry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Think	ccomp
28	out	out	ADP	_	27 cried	compound:prt
29	at	at	ADP	_	31 sorrow	case
30	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 sorrow	amod
31	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 cried	obl
32	as	as	SCONJ	_	35 theirs	mark
33	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 theirs	aux
34	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	35 theirs	cop
35	theirs	their	PRON	Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 cried	obl:agent
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	imperative	you not said here			of the long weary way	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	come	present · perfect	boy	the long weary way not said here			tree rules
3	seek	gerund	boy not said here	you			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
4	cry out speech: express	must · perfect · passive	sorrow	the heart of a iron or a stone man	such sorrow		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Topic
5	is a	present · perfect		sorrow			tree rules

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 3, sentence 83

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 3, sentence 83