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title: When they saw the name of the temple they knocked their heads and we… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: When they saw the name of the temple they knocked their heads and went slowly forward until they saw what seemed a great image of Buddha. Who acts: feet. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics, with its dependency tr
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics, sentence 116

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When they saw the name of the temple they knocked their heads and went slowly forward until they saw what seemed a great image of Buddha.

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**Who acts:** feet · **What happens:** see, knock, go, seem, name, image · **To what, where:** name, heads, great image, temple, Buddha · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (feet), 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:pg75089:16:116
# text = When they saw the name of the temple they knocked their heads and went slowly forward until they saw what seemed a great image of Buddha.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	temple	temple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	knocked	knock	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
15	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
17	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
20	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	21	nsubj	_	_
21	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	ccomp	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	image	image	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Buddha	Buddha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | feet *= foot* | the name of the temple |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer name=Stimulus |
| 2 | **knock** | past | feet *= foot* | feet's heads |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent head=Patient |
| 3 | **go** | past | feet *= foot* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | forward, slowly *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **see** | past | feet *= foot* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **seem** | past |  | a great image of Buddha |  |  |  | what *nsubj* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme image=Attribute |
| 6 | **name** |  |  | the temple |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 7 | **image** |  |  | Buddha |  |  |  |  | nom image «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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