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title: When the cart reached the place, by the use of a little money Mr. Wa… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: When the cart reached the place, by the use of a little money Mr. Wang arranged with the carter and escort soldiers to allow Mr. Kao to get out of the cart and have this quiet last talk with his wife. Who acts: cart, this. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A St
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 1, sentence 84

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When the cart reached the place, by the use of a little money Mr. Wang arranged with the carter and escort soldiers to allow Mr. Kao to get out of the cart and have this quiet last talk with his wife.

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**Who acts:** cart, this · **What happens:** reach, arrange, allow, get out, have, talk · **To what, where:** place, Mr., cart, little money

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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 (cart, this), 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:pg75089:17:84
# text = When the cart reached the place, by the use of a little money Mr. Wang arranged with the carter and escort soldiers to allow Mr. Kao to get out of the cart and have this quiet last talk with his wife.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	cart	cart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
15	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod:desc	_	_
16	Wang	Wang	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
17	arranged	arrange	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	carter	carter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	escort	escort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	allow	allow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
26	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	iobj	_	_
27	Kao	Kao	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	flat	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
30	out	out	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	cart	cart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	_
36	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	39	nsubj	_	_
37	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
38	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
40	with	with	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | past | the cart | the place |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent place=Theme |
| 2 | **arrange** | past |  |  |  |  |  | by the use of a little money; with the carter and escort soldiers | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by use=Destination |
| 3 | **allow** | to-infinitive |  |  | Mr. |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer mr.=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **get out** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | the cart |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **have** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **talk** |  | this |  |  |  |  | with Wang's wife | tree rules |
| 7 | **use** |  |  | a little money |  |  |  |  | nom use «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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