Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Hero, sentence 52

But, at last, after much persuasion, he gave a reluctant permission for him to be made leader of the army which was about to set out to attack Chin Pa.

Who acts: prince, army · What happens: give, make, be, set out, attack · To what, where: reluctant permission, last, leader, Chin Pa

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 (prince, army), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	11 gave	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 But	punct
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 last	case
4	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 gave	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 persuasion	punct
6	after	after	ADP	_	8 persuasion	case
7	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 persuasion	amod
8	persuasion	persuasion	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 last	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 last	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 gave	nsubj
11	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 permission	det
13	reluctant	reluctant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 permission	amod
14	permission	permission	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gave	obj
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 gave	obl
17	to	to	PART	_	19 made	mark
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 made	aux:pass
19	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 gave	advcl
20	leader	leader	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 made	xcomp
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 army	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 army	det
23	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 leader	nmod
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 about	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 about	cop
26	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 army	acl:relcl
27	to	to	PART	_	28 set	mark
28	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 about	xcomp
29	out	out	ADP	_	28 set	compound:prt
30	to	to	PART	_	31 attack	mark
31	attack	attack	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 set	xcomp
32	Chin	Chin	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 Pa	compound
33	Pa	Pa	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 attack	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	give	past	prince	a reluctant permission	last after much persuasion	for man	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent permission=Theme at last=Asset
2	make	to-infinitive · passive	prince not said here	leader of the army			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»
3	is	past	the army			about property	tree rules
4	set out	to-infinitive	the army not said here				vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	attack	to-infinitive	the army not said here	Chin Pa			vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pa=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 Chinese Hero, sentence 52

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Hero, sentence 52