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title: Gradually the kite ascended, and, in the twilight, appeared high ove… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: Gradually the kite ascended, and, in the twilight, appeared high over the camp of the three thousand soldiers. Who acts: kite, twilight. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Chinese Hero, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Hero, sentence 83

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Gradually the kite ascended, and, in the twilight, appeared high over the camp of the three thousand soldiers.

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**Who acts:** kite, twilight · **What happens:** ascend, appear · **To what, where:** camp

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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 (kite, twilight), 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:pg75089:9:83
# text = Gradually the kite ascended, and, in the twilight, appeared high over the camp of the three thousand soldiers.
1	Gradually	gradually	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	kite	kite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	ascended	ascend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	twilight	twilight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
13	high	high	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
14	over	over	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	compound	_	_
20	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ascend** | participle | the kite |  |  |  |  | gradually *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **appear** | past | the twilight |  |  | the camp of the thousand soldiers |  | high *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over camp=Location |

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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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