Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 1, sentence 79

The news was made known to the wife by a Mr. Wang, an old-time friend of the family, and he arranged with her a plan by which she might have a parting visit with her husband; this was to be in a cemetery just out of Peking and off a little from the great road over which his cart was to go.

Who acts: news, banishment, friend, this, cart · What happens: make, know, arrange, have, be · To what, where: news, plan, parting visit, cemetery, great road

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 (news, banishment, friend, this), 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	2 news	det
2	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 made	aux:pass
4	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 made	xcomp
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 wife	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wife	det
8	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 known	obl
9	by	by	ADP	_	12 Wang	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 Wang	det
11	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Wang	nmod:desc
12	Wang	Wang	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 known	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 friend	punct
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 friend	det
15	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 time	amod
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 old	punct
17	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 friend	compound
18	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Wang	appos
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 family	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 family	det
21	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 friend	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 arranged	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 arranged	cc
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 arranged	nsubj
25	arranged	arrange	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 made	conj
26	with	with	ADP	_	27 her	case
27	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 arranged	obl
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 plan	det
29	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 arranged	obj
30	by	by	ADP	_	31 which	case
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 have	obl
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 have	nsubj
33	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 have	aux
34	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 plan	acl:relcl
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 visit	det
36	parting	parting	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 visit	compound
37	visit	visit	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 have	obj
38	with	with	ADP	_	40 husband	case
39	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 husband	nmod:poss
40	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 visit	nmod
41	;	;	PUNCT	_	48 cemetery	punct
42	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	48 cemetery	nsubj
43	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 cemetery	cop
44	to	to	PART	_	48 cemetery	mark
45	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	48 cemetery	cop
46	in	in	ADP	_	48 cemetery	case
47	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 cemetery	det
48	cemetery	cemetery	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obl
49	just	just	ADV	_	52 Peking	advmod
50	out	out	ADP	_	52 Peking	case
51	of	of	ADP	_	52 Peking	case
52	Peking	Peking	PROPN	Number=Sing	48 cemetery	appos
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 little	cc
54	off	off	ADP	_	56 little	case
55	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	56 little	det
56	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 Peking	conj
57	from	from	ADP	_	60 road	case
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 road	det
59	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 road	amod
60	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 little	nmod
61	over	over	ADP	_	62 which	case
62	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	67 go	obl
63	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	64 cart	nmod:poss
64	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	67 go	nsubj
65	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	67 go	cop
66	to	to	PART	_	67 go	mark
67	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	60 road	acl:relcl
68	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	past · passive		the news			tree rules
2	know	participle	the news not said here			to the wife; by a Wang Mr.	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	arrange	past	banishment	a plan		with friend	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent plan=Patient with she=Instrument
4	have	might	friend	a parting visit		by a plan; with friend's husband	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent visit=Patient
5	is	past	this		a cemetery	Peking appos	tree rules
6	is	past	banishment's cart		the great road	go property	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.

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🌲 Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 1, sentence 79

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 1, sentence 79