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title: In every attack she was successful until the neighbouring tribes wer… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: In every attack she was successful until the neighbouring tribes were subdued and left the little kingdom in peace, for, they said, “We cannot fight against a god!” Who acts: Ting, tribes, We. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Tartar Joan of Arc, with its dep
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Tartar Joan of Arc, sentence 11

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In every attack she was successful until the neighbouring tribes were subdued and left the little kingdom in peace, for, they said, “We cannot fight against a god!”

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**Who acts:** Ting, tribes, We · **What happens:** be, subdue, leave, say, not fight · **To what, where:** attack, neighbouring tribes, little kingdom, peace · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Tartar Joan of Arc. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ting, tribes, We), 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:pg75089:6:11
# text = In every attack she was successful until the neighbouring tribes were subdued and left the little kingdom in peace, for, they said, “We cannot fight against a god!”
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	attack	attack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	successful	successful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	neighbouring	neighbouring	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	tribes	tribe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	subdued	subdue	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	advcl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
28	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
30	fight	fight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	ccomp	_	_
31	against	against	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	god	god	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	30	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Ting |  |  | every attack |  | successful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **subdue** | past · passive |  | the neighbouring tribes |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **leave** | past |  | the little kingdom |  | peace |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent kingdom=Theme in peace=Location |
| 4 | **say** *speech: express* | past | tribes *= tribe* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **not** **fight** *in a quote* | can | We |  |  |  |  | against a god | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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