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title: A few days after the man again appeared and plead his cause so earne… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: A few days after the man again appeared and plead his cause so earnestly that a more expert workman was called who said, after careful examination, “Only stone, common stone.” Who acts: few days, man. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, The Jade Treasure, with it
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, The Jade Treasure, sentence 15

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A few days after the man again appeared and plead his cause so earnestly that a more expert workman was called who said, after careful examination, “Only stone, common stone.”

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**Who acts:** few days, man · **What happens:** appear, plead, call, say, cause · **To what, where:** cause, more expert workman · **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 (few days, man), 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:pg75089:11:15
# text = A few days after the man again appeared and plead his cause so earnestly that a more expert workman was called who said, after careful examination, “Only stone, common stone.”
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
4	after	after	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	again	again	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	plead	plead	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	earnestly	earnestly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	19	amod	_	_
18	expert	expert	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	workman	workman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	advcl	_	_
22	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	after	after	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	careful	careful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	examination	examination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appear** | past | a few days after the man |  |  |  | again |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **plead** *speech: request* | present | a few days after the man *not said here* | man's cause |  |  |  | earnestly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **call** | past · passive |  | a more expert workman |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  | who *nsubj*; careful examination and stone and common stone *ccomp* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **cause** |  | man |  |  |  |  |  | nom cause «event transitive»: poss=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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