--- title: Many of the robbers were fathers and their hearts grew tender toward… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics description: Many of the robbers were fathers and their hearts grew tender toward the little maid as hour after hour her wail fell upon their ears, and they saw her little face swollen and drawn with long weeping and fasting. Who acts: Many, fathers, wail, robbers. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Many, fathers, wail, robbers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg75089:15:27 # text = Many of the robbers were fathers and their hearts grew tender toward the little maid as hour after hour her wail fell upon their ears, and they saw her little face swollen and drawn with long weeping and fasting. 1 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 nsubj _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 robbers robber NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 nmod _ _ 5 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 fathers father NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 hearts heart NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 conj _ _ 10 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 tender tender NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 12 toward toward ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 maid maid NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 16 as as ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 18 after after ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 20 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 wail wail NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 23 upon upon ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 30 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 31 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 33 swollen swell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 29 xcomp _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 drawn draw VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 33 conj _ _ 36 with with ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 weeping weeping NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 fasting fasting NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | Many of the robbers | fathers and robbers's hearts | | | | robbers's hearts *conj* | tree rules | | 2 | **grow** | past | fathers and robbers's hearts | tender | | | | toward the little maid as hour after hour | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tender=Theme | | 3 | **fall** | past | Jade's wail | | | robbers's ears | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon ear=Location | | 4 | **see** | past | robbers *= robber* | Jade's little face | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **swell** | participle | Jade's little face *not said here* | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 6 | **draw** | participle | Jade's little face *not said here* | | | | | with long weeping and fasting | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **wail** | | Jade | | | | | | nom wail «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/15/26/) - next →: [sentence 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/15/28/) - ↑ back to [A Daughter of the Present](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/15/)