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title: Yen Sung was greatly pleased, and soon a way was opened to degrade t… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: Yen Sung was greatly pleased, and soon a way was opened to degrade the official who had saved his enemy’s family. Who acts: Yen. 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 42

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Yen Sung was greatly pleased, and soon a way was opened to degrade the official who had saved his enemy’s family.

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**Who acts:** Yen · **What happens:** be, open, degrade, save · **To what, where:** way, official

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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 (Yen), 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:pg75089:17:42
# text = Yen Sung was greatly pleased, and soon a way was opened to degrade the official who had saved his enemy’s family.
1	Yen	Yen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	Sung	Sung	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	greatly	greatly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	opened	open	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	degrade	degrade	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	official	official	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	saved	save	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl:relcl	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	’s	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Yen |  |  |  |  | greatly, pleased *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **open** | past · passive |  | a way |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **degrade** | to-infinitive |  | the official |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent official=Patient |
| 4 | **save** | past · perfect · passive |  | the official |  |  |  | Yen's enemy's family *obj* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary family=Theme |

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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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