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title: For a day or two he caught no glimpse of the family, and his heart w… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: For a day or two he caught no glimpse of the family, and his heart was sad and heavy; so also was the heart of the father, had he but known it. Who acts: voice, heart. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Story of Old China, part 3, with its dependency tree and 
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 3, sentence 13

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For a day or two he caught no glimpse of the family, and his heart was sad and heavy; so also was the heart of the father, had he but known it.

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**Who acts:** voice, heart · **What happens:** catch, be, have, known, glimpse · **To what, where:** glimpse, heart, voice, family

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This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Story of Old China, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (voice, 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:pg75089:19:13
# text = For a day or two he caught no glimpse of the family, and his heart was sad and heavy; so also was the heart of the father, had he but known it.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	conj	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	9	det	_	_
9	glimpse	glimpse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	advcl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
23	also	also	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
31	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	_
33	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	known	known	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	conj	_	_
35	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch** | past | voice | no glimpse of the family |  |  | day |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glimpse=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | voice's heart |  |  |  |  | sad *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | voice's heart *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | past |  | the heart |  |  |  | of the father | tree rules |
| 5 | **have** | past | the heart | voice |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 6 | **known** | infinitive | the heart *not said here* | glimpse |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **glimpse** |  |  | the family |  |  |  |  | nom glimpse «act 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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