Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Hero, sentence 62

His officers and men protested, and said that he was not leaving any path for retreat in case of defeat, as they had no ships or bridges and few could swim so far.

Who acts: officers, Han, few · What happens: protest, say, not leave, have, swim · To what, where: path, case, ships · 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 (officers, Han, few), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 officers	nmod:poss
2	officers	officer	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 protested	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 men	cc
4	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 officers	conj
5	protested	protest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 said	cc
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 protested	parataxis
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 leaving	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 leaving	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 leaving	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 leaving	advmod
13	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 said	ccomp
14	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	15 path	det
15	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 leaving	obj
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 retreat	case
17	retreat	retreat	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 leaving	obl
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 case	case
19	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 leaving	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 defeat	case
21	defeat	defeat	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 case	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 had	punct
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 had	mark
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 had	nsubj
25	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	conj
26	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	27 ships	det
27	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 had	obj
28	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 bridges	cc
29	bridges	bridge	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 ships	conj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 swim	cc
31	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 swim	nsubj
32	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 swim	aux
33	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 had	conj
34	so	so	ADV	_	35 far	advmod
35	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	33 swim	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 protested	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	protest speech: disagree	past	Han's officers and men				vn rebel-71.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not leave	past · progressive	Han	any path	case of defeat	for retreat	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent path=Theme in case=Location
4	have	past	officers = officer	no ships or bridges			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ship=Patient
5	swim	could	few			far property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 62

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Hero, sentence 62