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title: Later in the day, father, mother, and grandparents of Kan Lang came,… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: Later in the day, father, mother, and grandparents of Kan Lang came, and thus, after eighteen weary years, the family was reunited, and joy came in every form to them for many long years. Who acts: grandparents, joy. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Story of
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 5, sentence 9

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Later in the day, father, mother, and grandparents of Kan Lang came, and thus, after eighteen weary years, the family was reunited, and joy came in every form to them for many long years.

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**Who acts:** grandparents, joy · **What happens:** come, reunite · **To what, where:** family, sons, form

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This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Story of Old China, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grandparents, joy), 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:pg75089:21:9
# text = Later in the day, father, mother, and grandparents of Kan Lang came, and thus, after eighteen weary years, the family was reunited, and joy came in every form to them for many long years.
1	Later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	grandparents	grandparent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Kan	Kan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	Lang	Lang	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	_
15	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
18	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
20	after	after	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	eighteen	eighteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
22	weary	weary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	reunited	reunite	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	35	det	_	_
35	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
36	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obl	_	_
38	for	for	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
40	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | grandparents of Kan |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **reunite** | past · passive |  | the family |  |  | year | thus *property* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **come** | past | joy |  | sons *= son* | every form | year |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to they=Initial\_Location |

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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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