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title: The loud voices had awakened him, and when the women met him, tellin… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: The loud voices had awakened him, and when the women met him, telling of the fright of their lady, he picked up a stick and, entering the court, demanded how he had dared enter there. Who acts: women, husband. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Story of Old Ch
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 1, sentence 67

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The loud voices had awakened him, and when the women met him, telling of the fright of their lady, he picked up a stick and, entering the court, demanded how he had dared enter there.

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**Who acts:** women, husband · **What happens:** awaken, meet, tell, pick up, enter, demand · **To what, where:** loud voices, husband, stick, court, enter, lady · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Story of Old China, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (women, husband), 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:pg75089:17:67
# text = The loud voices had awakened him, and when the women met him, telling of the fright of their lady, he picked up a stick and, entering the court, demanded how he had dared enter there.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	voices	voice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	awakened	awaken	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
9	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	12	mark	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	fright	fright	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	picked	pick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
25	up	up	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	entering	enter	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	conj	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	demanded	demand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
35	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	38	advmod	_	_
36	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
37	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	dared	dare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	34	ccomp	_	_
39	enter	enter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
40	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	38	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **awaken** | past · perfect · passive |  | the loud voices |  |  |  | husband *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **meet** | past | the women | husband |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | the women *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of the fright of voices's lady | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **pick up** | past | husband | a stick |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Topic |
| 5 | **enter** | gerund | husband *not said here* | the court |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme court=Destination |
| 6 | **demand** *speech: request* | past | husband *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition |
| 7 | **dare** | past · perfect | husband | enter |  | there |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enter=Recipient |
| 8 | **fright** |  |  | voices's lady |  |  |  |  | nom fright «feeling transitive»: of=patient |

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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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