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title: Then Sun Hou saw him lasso all the Heavenly Soldiers, and just as th… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Sun Hou saw him lasso all the Heavenly Soldiers, and just as the string was to envelope him he gave a jump and turned a somersault—and landed on top of a mountain. Who acts: Sun, horse. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Budd
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics, sentence 132

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Then Sun Hou saw him lasso all the Heavenly Soldiers, and just as the string was to envelope him he gave a jump and turned a somersault—and landed on top of a mountain.

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**Who acts:** Sun, horse · **What happens:** see, lasso, envelope, be, turn, land · **To what, where:** horse, Heavenly Soldiers, Sun, somersault, top

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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, horse), 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:pg75089:16:132
# text = Then Sun Hou saw him lasso all the Heavenly Soldiers, and just as the string was to envelope him he gave a jump and turned a somersault—and landed on top of a mountain.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Hou	Hou	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	lasso	lasso	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	10	det:predet	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Heavenly	heavenly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	Soldiers	Soldier	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
13	just	just	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	string	string	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	envelope	envelope	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	jump	jump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	somersault	somersault	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	landed	land	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
32	on	on	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | Sun | horse |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **lasso** | infinitive | horse *not said here* | all Heavenly Soldiers |  |  |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soldier=Patient |
| 3 | **envelope** | to-infinitive | Sun *not said here* | Sun |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past | Sun |  |  |  |  | as the string; a jump *obj*; give *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **turn** | past | Sun *not said here* | a somersault |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent somersault=Theme |
| 6 | **land** | participle | Sun *not said here* |  |  | top of a mountain |  |  | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on top=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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