Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Tea-house Story, sentence 33

In great sorrow and disappointment the scholar returned to his inn and wrote to his wife, telling her to sell some of their land and come to Peking to await with him the next opportunity for examination, three years later.

Who acts: scholar · What happens: return, write, tell, sell, come, await · To what, where: great sorrow, wife, some, Peking · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Chinese Tea-house Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (scholar), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 sorrow	case
2	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sorrow	amod
3	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 returned	obl
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 disappointment	cc
5	disappointment	disappointment	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sorrow	conj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 scholar	det
7	scholar	scholar	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 returned	nsubj
8	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 inn	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 inn	nmod:poss
11	inn	inn	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 returned	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 wrote	cc
13	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 returned	conj
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 wife	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 wife	nmod:poss
16	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wrote	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 telling	punct
18	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 wrote	advcl
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 telling	iobj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 sell	mark
21	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 telling	xcomp
22	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	21 sell	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 land	case
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 land	nmod:poss
25	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 some	nmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 come	cc
27	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 sell	conj
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 Peking	case
29	Peking	Peking	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 come	obl
30	to	to	PART	_	31 await	mark
31	await	await	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 come	advcl
32	with	with	ADP	_	33 him	case
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 await	obl
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 opportunity	det
35	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 opportunity	amod
36	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 later	nsubj
37	for	for	ADP	_	38 examination	case
38	examination	examination	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 opportunity	nmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 later	punct
40	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	41 years	nummod
41	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 later	obl:unmarked
42	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	31 await	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 returned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	return	past	the scholar			great sorrow and disappointment	to scholar's inn result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to inn=Result
2	write	past	the scholar not said here		scholar's wife			vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V PP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent to wife=Recipient
3	tell speech: assert	gerund	the scholar not said here		wife			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
4	sell not said to happen	to-infinitive	the scholar not said here	some of sorrow's land				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Theme
5	come	infinitive	the scholar not said here			Peking		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to peking=Initial_Location
6	await	to-infinitive	the scholar not said here				with scholar	tree rules

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/10/33/

🌲 Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Tea-house Story, sentence 33

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Tea-house Story, sentence 33