--- title: In great sorrow and disappointment the scholar returned to his inn a… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics description: In great sorrow and disappointment the scholar returned to his inn and wrote to his wife, telling her to sell some of their land and come to Peking to await with him the next opportunity for examination, three years later. Who acts: scholar. 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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 (scholar), 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:pg75089:10:33 # text = In great sorrow and disappointment the scholar returned to his inn and wrote to his wife, telling her to sell some of their land and come to Peking to await with him the next opportunity for examination, three years later. 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 sorrow sorrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 disappointment disappointment NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 scholar scholar NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 returned return VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 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 inn inn NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 wrote write VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 14 to to ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 telling tell VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 advcl _ _ 19 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 iobj _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 sell sell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 xcomp _ _ 22 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 21 obj _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 conj _ _ 28 to to ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 Peking Peking PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 await await VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 advcl _ _ 32 with with ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obl _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 opportunity opportunity NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nsubj _ _ 37 for for ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 examination examination NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 40 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 41 nummod _ _ 41 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 obl:unmarked _ _ 42 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **return** | past | the scholar | | | great sorrow and disappointment | | to scholar's inn *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to inn=Result | | 2 | **write** | past | the scholar *not said here* | | scholar's wife | | | | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V PP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent to wife=Recipient | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | the scholar *not said here* | | wife | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **sell** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the scholar *not said here* | some of sorrow's land | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Theme | | 5 | **come** | infinitive | the scholar *not said here* | | | Peking | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to peking=Initial\_Location | | 6 | **await** | to-infinitive | the scholar *not said here* | | | | | with scholar | tree rules | 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 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/10/32/) - next →: [sentence 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/10/34/) - ↑ back to [A Chinese Tea-house Story](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/10/)