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title: She called to him and a faint sound came from the distance, “The god… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: She called to him and a faint sound came from the distance, “The gods have had pity upon me and taken me from the evil of the world,” and here he was seen no more. Who acts: wife, faint sound, gods. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Chinese Tea-house Story, w
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Tea-house Story, sentence 93

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She called to him and a faint sound came from the distance, “The gods have had pity upon me and taken me from the evil of the world,” and here he was seen no more.

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**Who acts:** wife, faint sound, gods · **What happens:** call, come, have, take, see · **To what, where:** teacher, pity, wife, evil · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (wife, faint sound, gods), 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:pg75089:10:93
# text = She called to him and a faint sound came from the distance, “The gods have had pity upon me and taken me from the evil of the world,” and here he was seen no more.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	faint	faint	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
17	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	parataxis	_	_
19	pity	pity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	conj	_	_
24	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
34	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	37	advmod	_	_
35	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
36	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux:pass	_	_
37	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	conj	_	_
38	no	no	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** *speech: assert* | past | wife |  | teacher |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **come** | past | a faint sound |  |  |  |  | from the distance | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from distance=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **have** *in a quote* | present · perfect | the gods | pity |  |  |  | upon wife | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pity=Patient |
| 4 | **take** *in a quote* | participle | the gods *not said here* | wife |  | the evil of the world |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent i=Theme from evil=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **see** | past · passive |  | teacher |  | here |  |  | tree rules |

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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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