Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Chinese Heroism, sentence 14

In case of an attack the crying of children would not only annoy the soldiers, but might interfere with their hearing commands, and would also give a range to the enemy.

Who acts: crying, children · What happens: not annoy, interfere, give, cry, command · To what, where: soldiers, case, range, enemy, children · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Chinese Heroism. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crying, children), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	2 case	case
2	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 annoy	obl
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 attack	case
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 attack	det
5	attack	attack	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 case	nmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 crying	det
7	crying	crying	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 annoy	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 children	case
9	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 crying	nmod
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 annoy	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 annoy	advmod
12	only	only	ADV	_	13 annoy	advmod
13	annoy	annoy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 soldiers	det
15	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 annoy	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 interfere	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 interfere	cc
18	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 interfere	aux
19	interfere	interfere	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	13 annoy	parataxis
20	with	with	ADP	_	23 commands	case
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 commands	nmod:poss
22	hearing	hearing	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 commands	compound
23	commands	command	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 interfere	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 give	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 give	cc
26	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 give	aux
27	also	also	ADV	_	28 give	advmod
28	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 annoy	conj
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 range	det
30	range	range	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 give	obj
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 enemy	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 enemy	det
33	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 give	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 annoy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not annoy	would	the crying of children	the soldiers		case of a attack		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus soldier=Experiencer
2	interfere	might					with children's hearing commands	tree rules
3	give	would	the crying of children not said here	a range	the enemy			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent range=Theme to enemy=Recipient
4	cry			children				nom crying «act transitive»: of=patient
5	command		children = child					nom command «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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.

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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🌲 Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Chinese Heroism, sentence 14

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Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Chinese Heroism, sentence 14