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title: Later they recovered themselves and in many battles afterward betwee… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: Later they recovered themselves and in many battles afterward between these two great generals neither could obtain any great advantage. Who acts: bags, two great generals. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Chinese Hero, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Hero, sentence 74

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Later they recovered themselves and in many battles afterward between these two great generals neither could obtain any great advantage.

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**Who acts:** bags, two great generals · **What happens:** recover, obtain · **To what, where:** bags, great advantage, many battles

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This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Chinese Hero. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bags, two great generals), 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:pg75089:9:74
# text = Later they recovered themselves and in many battles afterward between these two great generals neither could obtain any great advantage.
1	Later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	recovered	recover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	battles	battle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
9	afterward	afterward	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
10	between	between	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	14	nsubj	_	_
12	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
13	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	generals	general	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
15	neither	neither	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	obtain	obtain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
18	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	det	_	_
19	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	advantage	advantage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **recover** | past | bags *= bag* | bags *= bag* |  |  |  | late *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme |
| 2 | **obtain** | could | two great generals  these | any great advantage |  | many battles |  | neither *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset advantage=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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