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title: On the road her chair passed Nien Chi, the wicked steward of Yen Sun… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: On the road her chair passed Nien Chi, the wicked steward of Yen Sung, who was out with some of his companions for a ride. Who acts: chair, wicked steward. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Story of Old China, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 1, sentence 25

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On the road her chair passed Nien Chi, the wicked steward of Yen Sung, who was out with some of his companions for a ride.

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**Who acts:** chair, wicked steward · **What happens:** pass, be · **To what, where:** Nien, road

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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 (chair, wicked steward), 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:pg75089:17:25
# text = On the road her chair passed Nien Chi, the wicked steward of Yen Sung, who was out with some of his companions for a ride.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	chair	chair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Nien	Nien	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	Chi	Chi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	steward	steward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Yen	Yen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	Sung	Sung	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	out	out	ADV	RB	_	12	parataxis	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	companions	companion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	ride	ride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | past | Ying's chair | Nien |  | the road |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent nien=Theme on road=Destination |
| 2 | **is** | past | the wicked steward of Yen |  |  |  |  | with some of Yen's companions for a ride; out *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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