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title: After which the oldest family servants were sent north to Peking wit… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: After which the oldest family servants were sent north to Peking with letters for the mother of Ting Lang. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Story of Old China, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 3, sentence 128

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After which the oldest family servants were sent north to Peking with letters for the mother of Ting Lang.

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**What happens:** send · **To what, where:** oldest family servants, Peking

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This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Story of Old China, part 3. 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:pg75089:19:128
# text = After which the oldest family servants were sent north to Peking with letters for the mother of Ting Lang.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	oldest	old	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	amod	_	_
5	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	north	north	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Peking	Peking	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	letters	letter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Ting	Ting	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	Lang	Lang	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past · passive |  | the oldest family servants | Peking |  |  | with letters; for the mother of Ting; which *obl*; north *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to peking=Destination |

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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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