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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 1, sentence 14

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That night after the great feast was over and, much under the influence of wine, all were sleeping, Yen Sung, with his steward and henchmen, removed the relief money from the logs, placed broken bricks in the holes, and closed the logs as they were before.

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**Who acts:** great feast, all, night, logs · **What happens:** be, sleep, remove, place, break, close · **To what, where:** night, Yen Sung, relief money, logs, broken bricks, holes

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This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Story of Old China, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great feast, all, night, logs), 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:pg75089:17:14
# text = That night after the great feast was over and, much under the influence of wine, all were sleeping, Yen Sung, with his steward and henchmen, removed the relief money from the logs, placed broken bricks in the holes, and closed the logs as they were before.
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
3	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	over	over	ADV	RB	_	2	acl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	much	much	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
12	under	under	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	influence	influence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	nsubj	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	sleeping	sleep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	Yen	Yen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Sung	Sung	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	steward	steward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	henchmen	henchman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
31	removed	remove	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	relief	relief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
35	from	from	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	logs	log	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
39	placed	place	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	acl	_	_
40	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	41	amod	_	_
41	bricks	brick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obj	_	_
42	in	in	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	holes	hole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
47	closed	close	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	conj	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	logs	log	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	obj	_	_
50	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	53	mark	_	_
51	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	nsubj	_	_
52	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	53	cop	_	_
53	before	before	ADV	RB	_	47	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	31	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the great feast | that night and the influence of wine *not said here* |  |  |  | over *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **sleep** | past · progressive | all | Yen Sung |  |  |  | with caravan's steward and henchmen | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent influence=Theme |
| 3 | **remove** | past | that night and the influence of wine | the relief money |  | the logs |  |  | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent money=Theme from log=Source |
| 4 | **place** | participle | the logs *not said here* | broken bricks |  | the holes |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent brick=Theme in hole=Destination |
| 5 | **break** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **close** | past | that night and the influence of wine *not said here* | the logs |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent log=Patient |
| 7 | **is** | past | logs *= log* |  |  |  |  | before *property* | tree rules |

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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:** «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.

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