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title: She made direct for the cave and prostrating herself before the entr… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: She made direct for the cave and prostrating herself before the entrance she began to weep and wail for her father. Who acts: Jade. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Daughter of the Present, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Daughter of the Present, sentence 21

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She made direct for the cave and prostrating herself before the entrance she began to weep and wail for her father.

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**Who acts:** Jade · **What happens:** make, prostrate, begin, weep, wail · **To what, where:** Jade, entrance

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This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Daughter of the Present. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jade), 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:pg75089:15:21
# text = She made direct for the cave and prostrating herself before the entrance she began to weep and wail for her father.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	direct	direct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	prostrating	prostrate	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
9	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	8	obj	_	_
10	before	before	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	entrance	entrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	weep	weep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	wail	wail	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | Jade |  |  |  |  | for the cave; direct *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent for cave=Asset |
| 2 | **prostrate** | gerund | Jade *not said here* | Jade |  |  | before the entrance |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **begin** | past | Jade | the entrance *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **weep** | to-infinitive | Jade *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **wail** | infinitive | Jade *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for Jade's father | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S\_INF»: agent=Agent for father=Recipient |

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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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