Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 1, sentence 48

A day was set when Nien Chi was to call, and he came in great pomp and glory, and was invited to the guest house, where Mr. Kao received him.

Who acts: Nien, Kao · What happens: set, be, come, invite, receive · To what, where: day, great pomp, Mr.

This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Story of Old China, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nien, Kao), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 day	det
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 set	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 set	aux:pass
4	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	when	when	SCONJ	_	10 call	mark
6	Nien	Nien	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 call	nsubj
7	Chi	Chi	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Nien	flat
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 call	cop
9	to	to	PART	_	10 call	mark
10	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 set	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 came	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 came	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 came	nsubj
14	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 set	parataxis
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 pomp	case
16	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 pomp	amod
17	pomp	pomp	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 came	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 glory	cc
19	glory	glory	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 pomp	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 invited	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 invited	cc
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 invited	aux:pass
23	invited	invite	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 came	conj
24	to	to	ADP	_	27 house	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 house	det
26	guest	guest	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 house	compound
27	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 invited	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 received	punct
29	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	32 received	advmod
30	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 Kao	nmod:desc
31	Kao	Kao	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 received	nsubj
32	received	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 house	acl:relcl
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 received	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	set	past · passive		a day			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result
2	is	past	Nien			call property	tree rules
3	come	past	Nien		great pomp and glory		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pomp=Location
4	invite	past · passive	Nien not said here			to the guest house	vn promote-102 «NP V S_ING»
5	receive	past	Kao Mr.	Mr.			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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.

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🌲 Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 1, sentence 48

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 1, sentence 48