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title: “Literary Glory” ran out of the house and out into a field, but was… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: “Literary Glory” ran out of the house and out into a field, but was overtaken and most brutally hacked to pieces. Who acts: Literary Glory. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Literary Glory, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Literary Glory, sentence 60

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“Literary Glory” ran out of the house and out into a field, but was overtaken and most brutally hacked to pieces.

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**Who acts:** Literary Glory · **What happens:** run, overtake, hack · **To what, where:** house

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This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Literary Glory. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Literary Glory), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg75089:13:60
# text = “Literary Glory” ran out of the house and out into a field, but was overtaken and most brutally hacked to pieces.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Literary	literary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Glory	glory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
5	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	out	out	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	overtaken	overtake	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	21	advmod	_	_
21	brutally	brutally	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	hacked	hack	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	conj	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | past | Literary Glory |  |  | the house and a field |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out house=Trajectory |
| 2 | **overtake** | past · passive | Literary Glory *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **hack** | participle | Literary Glory *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to pieces *result*; brutally *property* | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent to piece=Result |

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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.

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**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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