🌲 Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Hero, sentence 59

But Han Hsin was not an ordinary man and he commanded every man to get a board of some kind and in the darkness to swim across quietly.

Who acts: Han Hsin, Hsin · What happens: not be, command, get, swim · To what, where: ordinary man, man, board · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Han Hsin, Hsin), 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

Pragmatics

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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