Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Chinese Heroism, sentence 6

Those who worked in the hospital know what courage it required in the poor wounded men to keep on their beds when it seemed as if the enemy were breaking in.

Who acts: Those, courage, it, enemy · What happens: work, know, require, keep, seem, break in · To what, where: hospital, beds · 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 (Those, courage, it, enemy), 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	Those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 worked	nsubj
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 worked	nsubj
3	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 hospital	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hospital	det
6	hospital	hospital	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 know	obl
7	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 worked	ccomp
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 required	obj
9	courage	courage	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 required	nsubj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 required	nsubj
11	required	require	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 know	ccomp
12	in	in	ADP	_	16 men	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 men	det
14	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 men	amod
15	wounded	wounded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 men	amod
16	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 required	obl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 keep	mark
18	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 required	xcomp
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 beds	case
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 beds	nmod:poss
21	beds	bed	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 keep	obl
22	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	24 seemed	advmod
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 seemed	nsubj
24	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 keep	advcl
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 breaking	mark
26	if	if	SCONJ	_	30 breaking	mark
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 enemy	det
28	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 breaking	nsubj
29	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 breaking	aux
30	breaking	break	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 seemed	xcomp
31	in	in	ADV	_	30 breaking	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 worked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	work	past	Those		who nsubj	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	know	present	Those not said here	the hospital		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	require	past	courage		in the poor wounded men; what obj	vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent what=Recipient clause=Topic
4	keep	to-infinitive	courage not said here	men's beds		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent on bed=Location
5	seem	past	it			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
6	break in a condition, not said to happen	past · progressive	the enemy			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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 6

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Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Chinese Heroism, sentence 6