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title: In the terrible battle which followed the Goddess of Mercy let from… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: In the terrible battle which followed the Goddess of Mercy let from Heaven a basket and took him in and up to Heaven. Who acts: terrible battle, Goddess. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics, with its dependency tr
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics, sentence 62

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In the terrible battle which followed the Goddess of Mercy let from Heaven a basket and took him in and up to Heaven.

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**Who acts:** terrible battle, Goddess · **What happens:** follow, let, take · **To what, where:** basket, terrible battle, monkey, Heaven

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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 (terrible battle, Goddess), 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:pg75089:16:62
# text = In the terrible battle which followed the Goddess of Mercy let from Heaven a basket and took him in and up to Heaven.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Goddess	Goddess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Mercy	Mercy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	let	let	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Heaven	Heaven	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	basket	basket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	in	in	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	up	up	ADV	RB	_	19	conj	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Heaven	Heaven	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | past | the terrible battle |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **let** | past | the Goddess of Mercy | a basket |  | the terrible battle |  | from Heaven | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent basket=Theme |
| 3 | **take** | past | the Goddess of Mercy *not said here* | monkey | Heaven |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to heaven=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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