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title: With one hand covering the poor wounded eye, the two women watched t… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: With one hand covering the poor wounded eye, the two women watched the cart until it was lost in a bend of the road, and the servant said, “My great lady, return to your home. Who acts: one hand, two women, servant, great lady. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell,
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 2, sentence 5

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With one hand covering the poor wounded eye, the two women watched the cart until it was lost in a bend of the road, and the servant said, “My great lady, return to your home.

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**Who acts:** one hand, two women, servant, great lady · **What happens:** cover, watch, lose, say, return · **To what, where:** poor wounded eye, cart, bend · **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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one hand, two women, servant, great lady), 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:pg75089:18:5
# text = With one hand covering the poor wounded eye, the two women watched the cart until it was lost in a bend of the road, and the servant said, “My great lady, return to your home.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
4	covering	cover	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	wounded	wounded	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	watched	watch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	cart	cart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	advcl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	bend	bend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
32	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
34	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
37	return	return	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	ccomp	_	_
38	to	to	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cover** | gerund | one hand *not said here* | the poor wounded eye |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme eye=Destination |
| 2 | **watch** | past | the two women | the cart |  |  |  | with one hand | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cart=Theme |
| 3 | **lose** | past · passive |  | cart |  | a bend of the road |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the servant |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **return** *in a quote* | infinitive | My great lady |  |  |  |  | to your home *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to home=Result |

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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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