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title: For thirty years she led them in many victorious battles and recover… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: For thirty years she led them in many victorious battles and recovered much territory which had been lost by the northern kingdom in previous years. Who acts: stronghold, northern kingdom. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Tartar Joan of Arc, with its depende
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Tartar Joan of Arc, sentence 37

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For thirty years she led them in many victorious battles and recovered much territory which had been lost by the northern kingdom in previous years.

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**Who acts:** stronghold, northern kingdom · **What happens:** lead, recover, lose · **To what, where:** papers, many victorious battles, much territory

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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 (stronghold, northern kingdom), 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:pg75089:6:37
# text = For thirty years she led them in many victorious battles and recovered much territory which had been lost by the northern kingdom in previous years.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	victorious	victorious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	battles	battle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	recovered	recover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
13	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	territory	territory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl:relcl	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	previous	previous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead** | past | stronghold | papers *= paper* |  | many victorious battles | year |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in battle=Destination |
| 2 | **recover** | past | stronghold *not said here* | much territory |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent territory=Theme |
| 3 | **lose** | past · perfect · passive | the northern kingdom | much territory |  |  | year |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Eventuality |

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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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