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title: As he stooped and put his lips to what seemed a most loathsome sore,… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: As he stooped and put his lips to what seemed a most loathsome sore, behold! it was a beautiful ripe and luscious peach, bound with invisible bands about the foot. Who acts: sage, poison. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Chinese Tea-house Story, with its dep
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Tea-house Story, sentence 149

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As he stooped and put his lips to what seemed a most loathsome sore, behold! it was a beautiful ripe and luscious peach, bound with invisible bands about the foot.

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**Who acts:** sage, poison · **What happens:** stoop, put, seem, be, bind · **To what, where:** lips, beautiful ripe peach

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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 (sage, poison), 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:pg75089:10:149
# text = As he stooped and put his lips to what seemed a most loathsome sore, behold! it was a beautiful ripe and luscious peach, bound with invisible bands about the foot.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stooped	stoop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	10	nsubj	_	_
10	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	13	advmod	_	_
13	loathsome	loathsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	sore	sore	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	25	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
21	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
22	ripe	ripe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	luscious	luscious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	conj	_	_
25	peach	peach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	bound	bind	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	acl	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	invisible	invisible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	bands	band	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
31	about	about	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stoop** | past | sage |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **put** | past | sage *not said here* | sage's lips |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent lip=Goal |
| 3 | **seem** | past |  |  |  |  |  | what *nsubj*; sore *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | past | poison | a beautiful ripe peach |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **bind** | participle |  | a beautiful ripe peach *not said here* |  |  |  | with invisible bands about the foot | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent with band=Co-Patient |

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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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