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title: After hours of weary climbing, faint with hunger and thirst, he reac… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: After hours of weary climbing, faint with hunger and thirst, he reached the spot. Who acts: you, teacher. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Chinese Tea-house Story, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Tea-house Story, sentence 100

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After hours of weary climbing, faint with hunger and thirst, he reached the spot.

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**Who acts:** you, teacher · **What happens:** faint, reach · **To what, where:** spot

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

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

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg75089:10:100
# text = After hours of weary climbing, faint with hunger and thirst, he reached the spot.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	weary	weary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	climbing	climbing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	faint	faint	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	hunger	hunger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	thirst	thirst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **faint** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | hour | with hunger and thirst | vn change\_bodily\_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **reach** | past | teacher | the spot |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent spot=Theme |

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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.

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**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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