Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Daughter of the Orient, sentence 14

In the early morning his little daughter “Glory,” only ten years old, came and knelt down before him, and with many tears besought him to allow her to accompany him.

Who acts: many tears · What happens: come, kneel down, beseech, allow, accompany · To what, where: father, offence

This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Daughter of the Orient. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (many tears), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 morning	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 morning	det
3	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 morning	amod
4	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 came	obl
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 daughter	nmod:poss
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 daughter	amod
7	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 morning	nmod
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	9 Glory	punct
9	Glory	glory	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 daughter	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 morning	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 morning	punct
12	only	only	ADV	_	13 ten	advmod
13	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 years	nummod
14	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 old	obl:unmarked
15	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 morning	amod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 morning	punct
17	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 knelt	cc
19	knelt	kneel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 came	conj
20	down	down	ADP	_	19 knelt	compound:prt
21	before	before	ADP	_	22 him	case
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 knelt	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 besought	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 besought	cc
25	with	with	ADP	_	27 tears	case
26	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 tears	amod
27	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 besought	nsubj
28	besought	beseech	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 came	conj
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 besought	obj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 allow	mark
31	allow	allow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 besought	xcomp
32	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 allow	iobj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 accompany	mark
34	accompany	accompany	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 allow	xcomp
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 accompany	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	come	past				morning	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	kneel down	past				before father	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location
3	beseech	past	many tears	father			tree rules
4	allow	to-infinitive	many tears not said here		offence		vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer she=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
5	accompany not said to happen	to-infinitive	many tears not said here	father			vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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 Daughter of the Orient, sentence 14

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Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Daughter of the Orient, sentence 14