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title: At early dawn the messenger came and, taking her by the hand, ascend… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: At early dawn the messenger came and, taking her by the hand, ascended the heavenly heights. Who acts: messenger, hand. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Miss Russell’s Funeral Service, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Miss Russell’s Funeral Service, sentence 13

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At early dawn the messenger came and, taking her by the hand, ascended the heavenly heights.

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**Who acts:** messenger, hand · **What happens:** come, take, ascend · **To what, where:** messenger, heavenly heights

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This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Miss Russell’s Funeral Service. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (messenger, hand), 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:pg75089:5:13
# text = At early dawn the messenger came and, taking her by the hand, ascended the heavenly heights.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	dawn	dawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	messenger	messenger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
10	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	ascended	ascend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	heavenly	heavenly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	heights	height	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the messenger |  |  |  | dawn |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **take** | gerund | the messenger *not said here* |  | messenger |  |  | by the hand | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination |
| 3 | **ascend** | participle | the hand *not said here* | the heavenly heights |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme height=Trajectory |

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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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