--- title: After the battle, worn and weary, Sun Hou liberated the soldiers and… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics description: After the battle, worn and weary, Sun Hou liberated the soldiers and his companions, and then looking about him saw there was no mountain, no temple, but a fine restful road with eating-houses and rest-houses on the way. Who acts: Sun, mountain. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sun, mountain), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg75089:16:148 # text = After the battle, worn and weary, Sun Hou liberated the soldiers and his companions, and then looking about him saw there was no mountain, no temple, but a fine restful road with eating-houses and rest-houses on the way. 1 After after ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 battle battle NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 worn worn ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 weary weary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 10 Hou Hou PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 flat _ _ 11 liberated liberate VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 soldiers soldier NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 companions companion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 19 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 20 advmod _ _ 20 looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 advcl _ _ 21 about about ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obl _ _ 23 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 24 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 25 expl _ _ 25 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 ccomp _ _ 26 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 27 det _ _ 27 mountain mountain NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 30 det _ _ 30 temple temple NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 32 but but CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 34 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 35 restful restful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 37 with with ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 38 eating eating NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 39 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 houses house NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nmod _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 42 rest rest NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 43 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 42 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 houses house NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 conj _ _ 45 on on ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **liberate** | past | Sun | the soldiers and Sun's companions | | | | | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soldier=Theme | | 2 | **look** | gerund | | | | | then | about Sun | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about he=Theme | | 3 | **see** | past | | a fine restful road with eating houses and rest houses on the way | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 4 | **be** | past | no mountain and no temple | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 147](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/16/147/) - next →: [sentence 149](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/16/149/) - ↑ back to [T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/16/)