--- title: Again he saw them coming, and looking about he discovered a very ill… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics description: Again he saw them coming, and looking about he discovered a very ill-smelling hole, and bending over it he exclaimed, as his pursuers came up, “Ah, how sweet, how fragrant!” Who acts: Han, mountains, pursuers. 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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 (Han, mountains, pursuers), 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:pg75089:9:46 # text = Again he saw them coming, and looking about he discovered a very ill-smelling hole, and bending over it he exclaimed, as his pursuers came up, “Ah, how sweet, how fragrant!” 1 Again again ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 coming come VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 looking look VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 conj _ _ 9 about about SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 10 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 discovered discover VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 13 very very ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 ill ill ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 smelling smell VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 amod _ _ 17 hole hole NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 20 bending bend VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 24 csubj _ _ 21 over over ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obl _ _ 23 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 exclaimed exclaim VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 as as SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 27 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 pursuers pursuer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 29 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 advcl _ _ 30 up up ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 32 “ " PUNCT `` _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 Ah ah INTJ UH _ 36 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 36 advmod _ _ 36 sweet sweet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 39 advmod _ _ 39 fragrant fragrant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ! ! PUNCT . _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ” " PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | past | Han | mountains *= mountain* | | | again | | tree rules | | 2 | **come** | gerund | mountains *= mountain* *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **look** | gerund | mountains *= mountain* *not said here* | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **discover** | past | Han | a ill smelling hole | | | | | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Topic | | 5 | **smell** | gerund | | | | | | | vn smell\_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **bend** | gerund | | | | hole | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over it=Location | | 7 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | past | Han | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **come up** | past | Han's pursuers | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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 45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/9/45/) - next →: [sentence 47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/9/47/) - ↑ back to [A Chinese Hero](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/9/)