--- title: They tore off his audience cap, his royal robes, beat him, reviled h… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics description: They tore off his audience cap, his royal robes, beat him, reviled him, and were in the midst of a free fight with him and his chair-bearers, when Hai Jui came from the audience hall. Who acts: friends, Hai. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friends, Hai), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg75089:20:74 # text = They tore off his audience cap, his royal robes, beat him, reviled him, and were in the midst of a free fight with him and his chair-bearers, when Hai Jui came from the audience hall. 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 tore tore VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 off off ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ _ 4 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 5 audience audience NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 cap cap NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 9 royal royal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 robes robe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 beat beat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ _ 13 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 reviled revile VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 16 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 19 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 midst midst NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 parataxis _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 free free ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 fight fight NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 27 with with ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nmod _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 30 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 31 chair chair NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 32 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 bearers bearer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 35 when when SCONJ WRB _ 38 mark _ _ 36 Hai Hai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 37 Jui Jui PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 flat _ _ 38 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 39 from from ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 41 audience audience NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 compound _ _ 42 hall hall NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tore off** | past | friends *= friend* | official's audience cap and official's royal robes | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **beat** | infinitive | friends *= friend* *not said here* | official | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme | | 3 | **revile** | past | friends *= friend* *not said here* | official | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 4 | **is** | past | | | | the midst | | of a free fight with official | tree rules | | 5 | **come** | past | Hai | | | the audience hall | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from hall=Initial\_Location | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 73](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/20/73/) - next →: [sentence 75](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/20/75/) - ↑ back to [A Story of Old China, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/20/)