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title: One morning, as he was setting off to his work, his wife sent Han Ch… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: One morning, as he was setting off to his work, his wife sent Han Chung, his son, running after him to ask him to bring home some firewood. Who acts: Wang, wife. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 22, with its dependency tree and
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 22, sentence 73

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One morning, as he was setting off to his work, his wife sent Han Chung, his son, running after him to ask him to bring home some firewood.

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**Who acts:** Wang, wife · **What happens:** set off, send, run, ask, bring, work · **To what, where:** work, Han, Wang, firewood

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wang, wife), 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:pg65965:22:75
# text = One morning, as he was setting off to his work, his wife sent Han Chung, his son, running after him to ask him to bring home some firewood.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	setting	set	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
8	off	off	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	Han	Han	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	Chung	Chung	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
23	after	after	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
30	home	home	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	32	det	_	_
32	firewood	firewood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set off** | past · progressive | Wang |  |  | Wang's work |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to work=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **send** | past | Wang's wife | Han |  |  | morning |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent han=Theme |
| 3 | **run** | gerund | Wang's wife *not said here* |  |  |  | after Wang |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive | Wang's wife *not said here* |  | Wang |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **bring** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Wang's wife *not said here* | some firewood |  |  |  | home *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent firewood=Theme |
| 6 | **work** |  | Wang |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: 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:** «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Project Gutenberg book 65965 (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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