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title: Immediately they heard a bell strike and something was let down from… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: Immediately they heard a bell strike and something was let down from above and enveloped them in darkness. 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 tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics, sentence 119

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Immediately they heard a bell strike and something was let down from above and enveloped them in darkness.

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**Who acts:** feet · **What happens:** hear, let down, envelop · **To what, where:** bell strike, something, feet, darkness

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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:pg75089:16:119
# text = Immediately they heard a bell strike and something was let down from above and enveloped them in darkness.
1	Immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	bell	bell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	strike	strike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	let	let	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
11	down	down	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	above	above	ADV	RB	_	10	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	enveloped	envelop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	darkness	darkness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | feet *= foot* | a bell strike |  |  |  | immediately *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer strike=Stimulus |
| 2 | **let down** | past · passive |  | something |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **envelop** | past | feet *= foot* *not said here* | feet *= foot* |  | darkness |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Co-Theme |

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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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