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title: Think of the long, weary way he has come seeking you; ah! the heart… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: Think of the long, weary way he has come seeking you; ah! the heart of an iron or a stone man must have cried out at such sorrow as has been theirs. Who acts: you, boy, sorrow. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Story of Old China, part 3, with its dependency 
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 3, sentence 83

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Think of the long, weary way he has come seeking you; ah! the heart of an iron or a stone man must have cried out at such sorrow as has been theirs.

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**Who acts:** you, boy, sorrow · **What happens:** think, come, seek, cry out, be · **To what, where:** long weary way, you, heart, such sorrow, sorrow · **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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, boy, sorrow), 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:pg75089:19:83
# text = Think of the long, weary way he has come seeking you; ah! the heart of an iron or a stone man must have cried out at such sorrow as has been theirs.
1	Think	think	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	weary	weary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	acl:relcl	_	_
11	seeking	seek	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	xcomp	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
14	ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	1	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
25	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	aux	_	_
27	cried	cry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	ccomp	_	_
28	out	out	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
29	at	at	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
32	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
33	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
34	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	35	cop	_	_
35	theirs	their	PRON	PRP	Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of the long weary way | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | present · perfect | boy | the long weary way *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **seek** | gerund | boy *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 4 | **cry out** *speech: express* | must · perfect · passive | sorrow | the heart of a iron or a stone man |  | such sorrow |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Topic |
| 5 | **is a** | present · perfect |  | sorrow |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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