--- title: On his way to Mount Sumi he passed through the town in which his par… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics description: On his way to Mount Sumi he passed through the town in which his parents lived, and when he saw them, he told them everything that had happened to him since he left Chang-ngan. Who acts: Pei, parents. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/25/92/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Jade Story Book; Stories from the…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/) / [Opening, part 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/25/) / 92 # The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 25, sentence 92 On his way to Mount Sumi he passed through the town in which his parents lived, and when he saw them, he told them everything that had happened to him since he left Chang-ngan. **Who acts:** Pei, parents · **What happens:** pass, live, see, tell, happen, leave · **To what, where:** way, town, parents, everything, Pei, Chang ngan · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pei, parents), 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:pg65965:25:93 # text = On his way to Mount Sumi he passed through the town in which his parents lived, and when he saw them, he told them everything that had happened to him since he left Chang-ngan. 1 On on ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Mount Mount PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 Sumi Sumi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 flat _ _ 7 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 passed pass VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 through through ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 16 obl _ _ 14 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 16 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 19 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 21 advmod _ _ 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 advcl _ _ 22 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 24 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 26 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 iobj _ _ 27 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 25 obj _ _ 28 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 30 nsubj _ _ 29 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 happened happen VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 27 acl:relcl _ _ 31 to to ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obl _ _ 33 since since SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 34 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 left leave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 advcl _ _ 36 Chang Chang PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 37 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 ngan ngan NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pass** | past | Pei | | | Pei's way to Mount | | through the town | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on way=Location | | 2 | **live** | past | Pei's parents | | | the town | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location | | 3 | **see** | past | Pei | parents *= parent* | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Pei | everything | parents *= parent* | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient everything=Topic | | 5 | **happen** | past · perfect | | | Pei | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **leave** | past | Pei | Chang ngan | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ngan=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:** «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. - ← previous: [sentence 91](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/25/91/) - next →: [sentence 93](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/25/93/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/25/)