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title: As he talked his kindly manner warmed the heart of Mr. Kao, who had… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: As he talked his kindly manner warmed the heart of Mr. Kao, who had come to feel that all the world, even the gods, were against him, and little by little he told the story of his father’s life and their deadly enemy, the great Yen Sung. Who acts: Yang, manner, heart. A sentence of «Gleanings from C
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 2, sentence 83

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As he talked his kindly manner warmed the heart of Mr. Kao, who had come to feel that all the world, even the gods, were against him, and little by little he told the story of his father’s life and their deadly enemy, the great Yen Sung.

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**Who acts:** Yang, manner, heart · **What happens:** talk, warm, come, feel, be, tell · **To what, where:** heart, world, story · **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 (Yang, manner, heart), 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:pg75089:18:83
# text = As he talked his kindly manner warmed the heart of Mr. Kao, who had come to feel that all the world, even the gods, were against him, and little by little he told the story of his father’s life and their deadly enemy, the great Yen Sung.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	talked	talk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	kindly	kindly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	warmed	warm	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:desc	_	_
12	Kao	Kao	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	acl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	22	det:predet	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	even	even	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
29	against	against	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
33	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	advmod	_	_
34	by	by	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	little	little	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	37	obl	_	_
36	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
41	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	’s	's	PART	POS	_	42	case	_	_
44	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
46	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	48	nmod:poss	_	_
47	deadly	deadly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
51	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
52	Yen	Yen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	53	compound	_	_
53	Sung	Sung	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	48	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **talk** | past | Yang |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **warm** | past | Yang's manner | the heart of Kao  Mr. |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent heart=Patient |
| 3 | **come** | past · perfect | the heart of Kao  Mr. |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **feel** | to-infinitive | the heart of Kao  Mr. *not said here* | all world |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent world=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | against Yang | tree rules |
| 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Yang | the story of Yang's father's life and lives's deadly enemy  the great Yen Sung |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=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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