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title: In the early morning his little daughter “Glory,” only ten years old… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: In the early morning his little daughter “Glory,” only ten years old, came and knelt down before him, and with many tears besought him to allow her to accompany him. Who acts: many tears. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Daughter of the Orient, with its depe
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Daughter of the Orient, sentence 14

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In the early morning his little daughter “Glory,” only ten years old, came and knelt down before him, and with many tears besought him to allow her to accompany him.

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**Who acts:** many tears · **What happens:** come, kneel down, beseech, allow, accompany · **To what, where:** father, offence

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This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Daughter of the Orient. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (many tears), 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:pg75089:7:14
# text = In the early morning his little daughter “Glory,” only ten years old, came and knelt down before him, and with many tears besought him to allow her to accompany him.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Glory	glory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
12	only	only	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl:unmarked	_	_
15	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
17	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	knelt	kneel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
20	down	down	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	before	before	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
28	besought	beseech	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
29	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	allow	allow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
32	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	iobj	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	accompany	accompany	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	xcomp	_	_
35	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past |  |  |  |  | morning |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **kneel down** | past |  |  |  |  | before father |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location |
| 3 | **beseech** | past | many tears | father |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **allow** | to-infinitive | many tears *not said here* |  | offence |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer she=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **accompany** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | many tears *not said here* | father |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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