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title: With deep sighs and bitter tears Mr. Chun bewailed his fate. — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: With deep sighs and bitter tears Mr. Chun bewailed his fate. Who acts: Mr.. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Daughter of the Orient, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Daughter of the Orient, sentence 4

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With deep sighs and bitter tears Mr. Chun bewailed his fate.

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**Who acts:** Mr. · **What happens:** bewail, fate · **To what, where:** fate

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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 (Mr.), 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:pg75089:7:4
# text = With deep sighs and bitter tears Mr. Chun bewailed his fate.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	sighs	sigh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	bitter	bitter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
7	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	Chun	Chun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	bewailed	bewail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	fate	fate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bewail** | past | Mr. | Mr.'s fate |  |  |  | with deep sighs and bitter tears | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fate=Stimulus |
| 2 | **fate** |  | Mr. |  |  |  |  |  | nom fate «event transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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