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title: The other man was dressed in black, had a dark face, protruding eyes… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: The other man was dressed in black, had a dark face, protruding eyes, and a long black beard. 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 104

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The other man was dressed in black, had a dark face, protruding eyes, and a long black beard.

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**What happens:** dress, have, protrude · **To what, where:** other man, black, dark face, eyes

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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: 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:pg75089:10:104
# text = The other man was dressed in black, had a dark face, protruding eyes, and a long black beard.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	protruding	protrude	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
15	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	beard	beard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dress** | past · passive |  | the other man |  | black |  | a long black beard *obl* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **have** | past |  | a dark face |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient |
| 3 | **protrude** | gerund |  | eyes |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=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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