Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 1, sentence 75

The beautiful Yü Yüch Ying saw through the plan and disposed of the place at once for a small sum of money and, taking one loyal, good serving-woman, she sought her father.

Who acts: beautiful Yüch Ying, one, Ying · What happens: see, dispose, take, woman, seek, sum · To what, where: plan, father, money

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 (beautiful Yüch Ying, one, Ying), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Ying	det
2	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Ying	amod
3	Yü	Yü	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Yüch	compound
4	Yüch	Yüch	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Ying	compound
5	Ying	Ying	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 saw	nsubj
6	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	through	through	ADP	_	9 plan	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 plan	det
9	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 saw	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 disposed	cc
11	disposed	dispose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 plan	conj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 place	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 place	det
14	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 disposed	obl
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 once	case
16	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 saw	obl
17	for	for	ADP	_	20 sum	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 sum	det
19	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 sum	amod
20	sum	sum	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 saw	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 money	case
22	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sum	nmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 taking	cc
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 and	punct
25	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 sum	conj
26	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 woman	nsubj
27	loyal	loyal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 woman	amod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 loyal	punct
29	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 woman	amod
30	serving	serving	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 woman	compound
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 serving	punct
32	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 taking	ccomp
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 sought	punct
34	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 sought	nsubj
35	sought	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 saw	conj
36	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 father	nmod:poss
37	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 sought	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	the beautiful Yüch Ying		the plan	for a small sum of money	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	dispose	participle	the beautiful Yüch Ying not said here			of the place	vn addict-96 «NP V NP PP.Theme»: agent=Agent
3	take	gerund	the beautiful Yüch Ying not said here				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	woman		one				tree rules
5	seek	past	Ying	Ying's father			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Theme
6	sum			money			nom sum «possession transitive»: of=patient

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 75

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 1, sentence 75