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title: The great Yen Sung looked around; not a friendly face; his own grew… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: The great Yen Sung looked around; not a friendly face; his own grew a little fearful, and yet in a loud voice he called out: Who acts: great Yen Sung, own, Sung. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Story of Old China, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 4, sentence 71

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The great Yen Sung looked around; not a friendly face; his own grew a little fearful, and yet in a loud voice he called out:

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**Who acts:** great Yen Sung, own, Sung · **What happens:** look around, grow, call out · **To what, where:** loud voice

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This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Story of Old China, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great Yen Sung, own, Sung), 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:pg75089:20:71
# text = The great Yen Sung looked around; not a friendly face; his own grew a little fearful, and yet in a loud voice he called out:
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	Yen	Yen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Sung	Sung	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	around	around	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	friendly	friendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	nsubj	_	_
15	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	obl:unmarked	_	_
18	fearful	fearful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
28	out	out	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look around** | past | the great Yen Sung |  |  |  |  | a friendly face *parataxis*; around *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **grow** | past | Sung's own |  |  |  | yet | fearful *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **call out** *speech: assert* | past | Sung | a loud voice *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent voice=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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