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title: He struck the bell the priest carried, and the servants, on opening… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: He struck the bell the priest carried, and the servants, on opening the gate and seeing the queer procession, were very much frightened. Who acts: monkey, priest. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics, with its depe
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics, sentence 23

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He struck the bell the priest carried, and the servants, on opening the gate and seeing the queer procession, were very much frightened.

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**Who acts:** monkey, priest · **What happens:** strike, carry, open, see, be · **To what, where:** bell, servants, gate, queer procession

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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 (monkey, priest), 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:pg75089:16:23
# text = He struck the bell the priest carried, and the servants, on opening the gate and seeing the queer procession, were very much frightened.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	struck	strike	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	bell	bell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	opening	open	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	queer	queer	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	procession	procession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
24	very	very	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	much	much	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	frightened	frightened	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **strike** | past | monkey | the bell |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bell=Patient |
| 2 | **carry** | past | the priest | the servants |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **open** | gerund | the priest *not said here* | the gate |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gate=Theme |
| 4 | **see** | gerund | the priest *not said here* | the queer procession |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer procession=Stimulus |
| 5 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | frightened *property* | tree rules |

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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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