Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 5, sentence 9

Later in the day, father, mother, and grandparents of Kan Lang came, and thus, after eighteen weary years, the family was reunited, and joy came in every form to them for many long years.

Who acts: grandparents, joy · What happens: come, reunite · To what, where: family, sons, form

This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Story of Old China, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grandparents, joy), 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	Later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 day	advmod
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 day	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 day	det
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 father	punct
6	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 day	appos
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 mother	punct
8	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 father	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 came	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 came	cc
11	grandparents	grandparent	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 came	nsubj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 Kan	case
13	Kan	Kan	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 grandparents	nmod
14	Lang	Lang	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Kan	flat
15	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 day	parataxis
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 reunited	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 reunited	cc
18	thus	thus	ADV	_	28 reunited	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 thus	punct
20	after	after	ADP	_	23 years	case
21	eighteen	eighteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 years	nummod
22	weary	weary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 years	amod
23	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 reunited	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 years	punct
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 family	det
26	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 reunited	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 reunited	aux:pass
28	reunited	reunite	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 came	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 came	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 came	cc
31	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 came	nsubj
32	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 came	conj
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 form	case
34	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	35 form	det
35	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 came	obl
36	to	to	ADP	_	37 them	case
37	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 came	obl
38	for	for	ADP	_	41 years	case
39	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 years	amod
40	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 years	amod
41	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 came	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 day	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	grandparents of Kan						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	reunite	past · passive		the family			year	thus property	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Agent
3	come	past	joy		sons = son	every form	year		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to they=Initial_Location

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 5, sentence 9

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Story of Old China, part 5, sentence 9