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description: The man plead so hard that the Emperor sent out and called in some expert workmen in precious stones, and they also looked lightly upon it and said, “Only stone, only stone.” Who acts: man, Emperor, mountains. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, The Jade Treasure
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, The Jade Treasure, sentence 12

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The man plead so hard that the Emperor sent out and called in some expert workmen in precious stones, and they also looked lightly upon it and said, “Only stone, only stone.”

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**Who acts:** man, Emperor, mountains · **What happens:** plead, send out, call, look, say · **To what, where:** expert workmen · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, The Jade Treasure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, Emperor, mountains), 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:pg75089:11:12
# text = The man plead so hard that the Emperor sent out and called in some expert workmen in precious stones, and they also looked lightly upon it and said, “Only stone, only stone.”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	plead	plead	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	_
15	expert	expert	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	workmen	workman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	also	also	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
25	lightly	lightly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	only	only	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **plead** *speech: request* | present | the man |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **send out** | past | the Emperor |  |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **call** | participle | the Emperor *not said here* |  |  | some expert workmen in precious stones |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **look** | past | mountains *= mountain* |  |  |  |  | upon stone; lightly *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon it=Theme |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | mountains *= mountain* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | stone and stone *ccomp* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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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