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title: Soon after the procession, which had been forming in the village, ca… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: Soon after the procession, which had been forming in the village, came for them, with drums beating and banners flying. Who acts: procession, drums. 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 an
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics, sentence 38

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Soon after the procession, which had been forming in the village, came for them, with drums beating and banners flying.

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**Who acts:** procession, drums · **What happens:** form, come, beat, banner, fly · **To what, where:** village

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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 (procession, drums), 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:pg75089:16:38
# text = Soon after the procession, which had been forming in the village, came for them, with drums beating and banners flying.
1	Soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	_
2	after	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	procession	procession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	aux	_	_
9	forming	form	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	acl:relcl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
14	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	drums	drum	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
20	beating	beat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	banners	banner	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
23	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **form** | past · perfect · progressive | the procession |  |  | the village |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in village=Location |
| 2 | **come** | past |  |  |  |  |  | for children *= child*; soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **beat** | gerund | drums |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **banner** | present | drums *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **fly** | gerund | drums *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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