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I have encountered a pretty cool area of research of translating between Chinese and English back and forth, and found documents like A cognitive approach to multi-verb constructions in Mandarin Chinese, which has this list (unfortunately with no English meanings):

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Then there is The Linguistic Encoding of Motion Events in Chinese, which has stuff like this:

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A serialized verb might look like this:

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Are there any large lists/collections of serialized verb constructs and their literal breakdown? I haven't been able to find any.

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