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title: Then Sun Hou went out and reviled the demon and he came out in great… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Sun Hou went out and reviled the demon and he came out in great anger; Sun Hou changed into a fine melon and the demon, seeing him, ate him. Who acts: Sun. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics, with its depend
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics, sentence 145

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Then Sun Hou went out and reviled the demon and he came out in great anger; Sun Hou changed into a fine melon and the demon, seeing him, ate him.

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**Who acts:** Sun · **What happens:** go out, revile, come out, change, see, eat · **To what, where:** demon, great anger, fine melon, Sun

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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), 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:pg75089:16:145
# text = Then Sun Hou went out and reviled the demon and he came out in great anger; Sun Hou changed into a fine melon and the demon, seeing him, ate him.
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	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	reviled	revile	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	demon	demon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	out	out	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
18	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	Hou	Hou	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	_
20	changed	change	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
21	into	into	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	melon	melon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	demon	demon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
30	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
33	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go out** | past | Sun |  |  |  | then | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **revile** | past | Sun *not said here* | the demon |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent demon=Theme |
| 3 | **come out** | past | Sun |  |  | great anger |  | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **change** | past | Sun |  |  |  |  | into a fine melon and the demon *result* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into melon=Result |
| 5 | **see** | gerund | Sun *not said here* | Sun |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 6 | **eat** | past | Sun *not said here* | Sun |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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