--- title: For a moment Chi Hsiao Tang’s heart failed him, but he resolutely pu… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics description: For a moment Chi Hsiao Tang’s heart failed him, but he resolutely put down the disgust and nausea which the sickening sore produced, and answered as before, “I can dress it, Worthy Teacher.” Who acts: heart, Chi, disgust, I. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heart, Chi, disgust, I), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg75089:10:144 # text = For a moment Chi Hsiao Tang’s heart failed him, but he resolutely put down the disgust and nausea which the sickening sore produced, and answered as before, “I can dress it, Worthy Teacher.” 1 For for ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 4 Chi Chi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod:poss _ _ 5 Hsiao Hsiao PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 flat _ _ 6 Tang Tang PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ’s 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 8 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 failed fail VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 but but CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 13 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 resolutely resolutely ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 put put VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 16 down down ADP RP _ 15 compound:prt _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 disgust disgust NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 nausea nausea NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 21 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 24 nsubj _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 sickening sicken VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 24 amod _ _ 24 sore sore NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 appos _ _ 25 produced produce VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 answered answer VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 conj _ _ 29 as as ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 before before ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 “ " PUNCT `` _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 34 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 dress dress VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 conj _ _ 36 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 Worthy worthy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 Teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ” " PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fail** | past | Chi's heart | Chi | | | moment | | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality | | 2 | **put down** | past | Chi | the disgust and nausea | | | | resolutely *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent disgust=Goal | | 3 | **sicken** | gerund | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **sore** | | the disgust and nausea | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **produce** | participle | | the sickening sore *not said here* | | | | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **answer** *speech: assert* | participle | | | | | | before *property* | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **dress** *in a quote* | can | I | sore | | | | Worthy Teacher *obl* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 143](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/10/143/) - next →: [sentence 145](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/10/145/) - ↑ back to [A Chinese Tea-house Story](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/10/)