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title: Yü Yüch Ying immediately rose and went to the grave of her father-in… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: Yü Yüch Ying immediately rose and went to the grave of her father-in-law, followed by the servant. Who acts: Yü. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Story of Old China, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 1, sentence 30

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Yü Yüch Ying immediately rose and went to the grave of her father-in-law, followed by the servant.

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**Who acts:** Yü · **What happens:** rise, go, follow · **To what, where:** grave, law

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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 (Yü), 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:pg75089:17:30
# text = Yü Yüch Ying immediately rose and went to the grave of her father-in-law, followed by the servant.
1	Yü	Yü	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	Yüch	Yüch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Ying	Ying	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
13	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	followed	follow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | past | Yü |  |  |  |  | immediately *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **go** | past | Yü *not said here* |  |  | the grave of Yü's law  father |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to grave=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **follow** | participle |  | Yü's law  father *not said here* |  |  |  | by the servant | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by servant=Location |

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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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