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title: After reaching the city of Hsiang Yang, to which he had been banishe… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: After reaching the city of Hsiang Yang, to which he had been banished, he was obliged to walk about with chain and ball attached to his feet, carrying a gun on his shoulder. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Story of Old China, part 2, with its dependency tre
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 2, sentence 75

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After reaching the city of Hsiang Yang, to which he had been banished, he was obliged to walk about with chain and ball attached to his feet, carrying a gun on his shoulder.

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**What happens:** reach, banish, oblige, walk, attach, carry · **To what, where:** city, Yang, chain, gun, shoulder

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This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Story of Old China, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg75089:18:75
# text = After reaching the city of Hsiang Yang, to which he had been banished, he was obliged to walk about with chain and ball attached to his feet, carrying a gun on his shoulder.
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	reaching	reach	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	Hsiang	Hsiang	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Yang	Yang	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	obl	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	banished	banish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	obliged	oblige	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	about	about	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	chain	chain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
26	attached	attach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	gun	gun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	on	on	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | gerund |  | the city of Hsiang Yang |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent city=Theme |
| 2 | **banish** | past · perfect · passive |  | Yang |  |  |  | which *obl* | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to which=Destination |
| 3 | **oblige** | past · passive |  | Yang |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result |
| 4 | **walk** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | with chain and ball; about *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **attach** | participle |  | chain and ball *not said here* |  |  |  | to Yang's feet | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to foot=Co-Patient |
| 6 | **carry** | gerund |  | a gun |  | Yang's shoulder |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gun=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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