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title: After the feast the students all waited outside the Hall for Yen Sun… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: After the feast the students all waited outside the Hall for Yen Sung to come for audience with the Emperor. Who acts: students. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Story of Old China, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 4, sentence 66

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After the feast the students all waited outside the Hall for Yen Sung to come for audience with the Emperor.

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**Who acts:** students · **What happens:** wait, come · **To what, where:** Hall

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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 (students), 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:pg75089:20:66
# text = After the feast the students all waited outside the Hall for Yen Sung to come for audience with the Emperor.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	students	student	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
6	all	all	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	waited	wait	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	outside	outside	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Hall	Hall	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Yen	Yen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	Sung	Sung	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	audience	audience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | past | the students |  |  | the Hall | after the feast | for Yen; all *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme outside hall=Location |
| 2 | **come** | to-infinitive | the students *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for audience with the Emperor | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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