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title: Then he let the soldiers out of the iron cow—and the great demon got… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he let the soldiers out of the iron cow—and the great demon got a great string and bound them and put them in a cave. Who acts: Sun, great demon. 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 
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics, sentence 125

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Then he let the soldiers out of the iron cow—and the great demon got a great string and bound them and put them in a cave.

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**Who acts:** Sun, great demon · **What happens:** let, get, bound, put · **To what, where:** soldiers, great string, cave

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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 (Sun, great demon), 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:pg75089:16:125
# text = Then he let the soldiers out of the iron cow—and the great demon got a great string and bound them and put them in a cave.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	let	let	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	demon	demon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	string	string	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	bound	bound	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
25	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | past | Sun | the soldiers |  |  | then | out the iron cow | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soldier=Theme |
| 2 | **get** | past | the great demon | a great string |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer string=Stimulus |
| 3 | **bound** | infinitive | the great demon *not said here* | Soldiers *= soldier* |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location they=Theme |
| 4 | **put** | infinitive | the great demon *not said here* | Soldiers *= soldier* |  | a cave |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in cave=Destination |

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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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