--- title: The sons lifted her from her knees, called the servants who took her… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics description: The sons lifted her from her knees, called the servants who took her to her room, and after arranging her still beautiful black hair, they robed her in garments of honour brought by her son. Who acts: sons, knees, servants. 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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 (sons, knees, servants), 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:pg75089:21:1 # text = The sons lifted her from her knees, called the servants who took her to her room, and after arranging her still beautiful black hair, they robed her in garments of honour brought by her son. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 sons son NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 lifted lift VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 from from ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 knees knee NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 acl _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 servants servant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 12 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 13 nsubj _ _ 13 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ _ 14 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 to to ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 20 after after SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 21 arranging arrange VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 29 advcl _ _ 22 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 23 still still ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 25 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 28 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 robed robe VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 30 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 garments garment NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 honour honour NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod _ _ 35 brought bring VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 34 acl _ _ 36 by by ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lift** | past | the sons | her *= she* | | her knees | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme from knee=Destination | | 2 | **call** | participle | her knees *not said here* | the servants | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent servant=Recipient | | 3 | **take** | past | the servants | her *= she* | | her room | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to room=Destination | | 4 | **arrange** | gerund | sons *= son* *not said here* | her beautiful black hair | | | | | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Product | | 5 | **robe** | past | sons *= son* | | her *= she* | | | in garments of honour | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent she=Destination in garment=Theme | | 6 | **bring** | participle | | honour *not said here* | | | | by her son | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent | 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: [A Story of Old China, part 4, 151](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/20/151/) - next →: [sentence 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/21/2/) - ↑ back to [A Story of Old China, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/21/)