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title: The fateful day came when the father must go to the capital, there t… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: The fateful day came when the father must go to the capital, there to receive his punishment. Who acts: fateful day, father. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Daughter of the Orient, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Daughter of the Orient, sentence 13

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The fateful day came when the father must go to the capital, there to receive his punishment.

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**Who acts:** fateful day, father · **What happens:** come, go, receive, punish · **To what, where:** capital, punishment

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This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Daughter of the Orient. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fateful day, father), 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:pg75089:7:13
# text = The fateful day came when the father must go to the capital, there to receive his punishment.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	fateful	fateful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	16	expl	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	receive	receive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	punishment	punishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	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 | the fateful day |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | must | the father |  |  | the capital |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to capital=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **receive** | to-infinitive | the father *not said here* | father's punishment |  | there |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent punishment=Theme |
| 4 | **punish** |  | father |  |  |  |  |  | nom punishment «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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