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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 4, sentence 112

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With great luxury was the palace prepared, for all rejoiced at the downfall of the great Yen Sung, and all desired to do homage to the great son of the old official house of Tu.

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**Who acts:** palace · **What happens:** be, prepare, rejoice, desire, do · **To what, where:** palace, all, downfall, homage

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This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Story of Old China, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (palace), 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:pg75089:20:112
# text = With great luxury was the palace prepared, for all rejoiced at the downfall of the great Yen Sung, and all desired to do homage to the great son of the old official house of Tu.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	luxury	luxury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	prepared	prepare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	rejoiced	rejoice	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	downfall	downfall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	Yen	Yen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Sung	Sung	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	desired	desire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl:relcl	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	homage	homage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
33	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
34	official	official	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	Tu	Tu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the palace |  |  |  | with great luxury | tree rules |
| 2 | **prepare** | participle |  | the palace *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **rejoice** | participle · passive |  | all |  | the downfall of the great Yen Sung |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **desire** | participle · passive | the palace *not said here* | all |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **do** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the palace *not said here* | homage |  |  |  | to the great son of the old official house of Tu | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent homage=Eventuality |

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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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