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title: The proud maiden was furious at being thus scorned, and blowing her… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: The proud maiden was furious at being thus scorned, and blowing her horn summoned the men of the mountains to hear the insult offered her and to revenge her wrong. Who acts: proud maiden, blowing. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Tartar Joan of Arc, with its
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Tartar Joan of Arc, sentence 21

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The proud maiden was furious at being thus scorned, and blowing her horn summoned the men of the mountains to hear the insult offered her and to revenge her wrong.

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**Who acts:** proud maiden, blowing · **What happens:** be, scorn, blow, summon, hear, offer · **To what, where:** horn, men, insult, Ting

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This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Tartar Joan of Arc. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (proud maiden, blowing), 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:pg75089:6:21
# text = The proud maiden was furious at being thus scorned, and blowing her horn summoned the men of the mountains to hear the insult offered her and to revenge her wrong.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	furious	furious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	aux:pass	_	_
8	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	scorned	scorn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	blowing	blow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	csubj	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	horn	horn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	summoned	summon	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	insult	insult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	offered	offer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
26	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	iobj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	revenge	revenge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
30	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the proud maiden |  |  |  |  | furious *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **scorn** | gerund · passive | the proud maiden *not said here* |  |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP» |
| 3 | **blow** | gerund |  | Ting's horn |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent horn=Patient |
| 4 | **summon** | past | blowing |  | the men of the mountains |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Recipient |
| 5 | **hear** | to-infinitive | blowing *not said here* | the insult |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer insult=Stimulus |
| 6 | **offer** | past |  |  | Ting |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent she=Theme |

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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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