Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Tartar Joan of Arc, sentence 29

The wedding was hastily arranged, and the General with his bride set out at once for Peking, to take his report to the Emperor and to take command of a large force which was to move southward from the capital to recapture the city of Yang Chow, which was in the hands of southern rebels.

Who acts: General, large force, Yang Chow · What happens: arrange, set out, take, move, recapture, be · To what, where: wedding, report, Emperor, command, capital, city · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (General, large force, Yang Chow), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wedding	det
2	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 arranged	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 arranged	aux:pass
4	hastily	hastily	ADV	_	5 arranged	advmod
5	arranged	arrange	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 set	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 set	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 General	det
9	General	General	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 set	nsubj
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 bride	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 bride	nmod:poss
12	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 General	nmod
13	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 arranged	conj
14	out	out	ADP	_	13 set	compound:prt
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 once	case
16	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	13 set	obl
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 Peking	case
18	Peking	Peking	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 set	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 take	punct
20	to	to	PART	_	21 take	mark
21	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	13 set	parataxis
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 report	nmod:poss
23	report	report	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 take	obj
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 Emperor	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Emperor	det
26	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 take	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 take	cc
28	to	to	PART	_	29 take	mark
29	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	21 take	conj
30	command	command	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 take	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	34 force	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 force	det
33	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 force	amod
34	force	force	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 command	nmod
35	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 move	nsubj
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 move	aux
37	to	to	PART	_	38 move	mark
38	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 force	acl:relcl
39	southward	southward	ADV	_	42 capital	advmod
40	from	from	ADP	_	42 capital	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 capital	det
42	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 move	obl
43	to	to	PART	_	44 recapture	mark
44	recapture	recapture	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 move	advcl
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 city	det
46	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 recapture	obj
47	of	of	ADP	_	49 Chow	case
48	Yang	Yang	PROPN	Number=Sing	49 Chow	compound
49	Chow	chow	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 city	nmod
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 hands	punct
51	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	55 hands	nsubj
52	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	55 hands	cop
53	in	in	ADP	_	55 hands	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 hands	det
55	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 Chow	appos
56	of	of	ADP	_	58 rebels	case
57	southern	southern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 rebels	amod
58	rebels	rebel	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 hands	nmod
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 arranged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	arrange	past · passive		the wedding			hastily property	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product
2	set out	past	the General with general's bride				for Peking	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	take	to-infinitive		general's report	the Emperor			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent report=Theme to emperor=Destination
4	take	to-infinitive		command of a large force				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent command=Theme
5	move	past	a large force			the capital		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from capital=Trajectory
6	recapture	to-infinitive	a large force not said here	the city of Yang Chow				vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Theme
7	is	past	Yang Chow			the hands	of southern rebels	tree rules
8	report		general					nom report «communication transitive»: poss=agent
9	command			a large force				nom command «communication transitive»: of=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, A Tartar Joan of Arc, sentence 29