--- title: He knew the story of Ting Lang’s life; felt that the time had come t… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics description: He knew the story of Ting Lang’s life; felt that the time had come to expose the great Yen Sung, so at the great feast following the examinations he wrote the following on slips of paper and sent them quietly among the students: Who acts: feast, time, paper. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (feast, time, paper), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg75089:20:60 # text = He knew the story of Ting Lang’s life; felt that the time had come to expose the great Yen Sung, so at the great feast following the examinations he wrote the following on slips of paper and sent them quietly among the students: 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 knew know VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 6 Ting Ting PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod:poss _ _ 7 Lang Lang PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ’s 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 9 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ; ; PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 11 felt feel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 12 that that SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 15 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 come come VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 11 advcl _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 expose expose VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 xcomp _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 20 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 21 Yen Yen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 Sung Sung PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 24 so so ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 25 at at ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 feast feast NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 29 following follow VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 examinations examination NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nmod _ _ 32 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 wrote write VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 following follow VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 33 advcl _ _ 36 on on ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 slips slip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obl _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 paper paper NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 41 sent send VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 42 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 obj _ _ 43 quietly quietly ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 44 among among ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 students student NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 : : PUNCT : _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **know** | past | feast | the story of Ting's life | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus | | 2 | **feel** | past | | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **come** | past · perfect | the time | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **expose** | to-infinitive | the time *not said here* | the great Yen Sung | | | | | vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot sung=Topic | | 5 | **follow** | gerund | | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **write** | past | feast | | | the great feast follow the examinations | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **follow** | gerund | feast *not said here* | | | slips of paper | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on slip=Location | | 8 | **send** | past | feast *not said here* | examinations *= examination* | | | | among the students; quietly *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 9 | **slip** | | paper | | | | | | nom slip «act intransitive»: of=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/20/59/) - next →: [sentence 61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/20/61/) - ↑ back to [A Story of Old China, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/20/)