Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Hero, sentence 67
He did not even then know the military master that he had to deal with in Han Hsin, as it was still early in the war.
Who acts: Hsin, master · What happens: not know, have, deal, be · To what, where: military master · 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 (Hsin, master), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 know | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 know | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 know | advmod |
| 4 | even | even | ADV | _ | 6 know | advmod |
| 5 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 know | advmod |
| 6 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 master | det |
| 8 | military | military | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 master | compound |
| 9 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 know | obj |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 had | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 had | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 know | ccomp |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 deal | mark |
| 14 | deal | deal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 had | xcomp |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 Han | case |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 Han | case |
| 17 | Han | Han | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 deal | obl |
| 18 | Hsin | Hsin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Han | flat |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 war | punct |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 27 war | case |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 war | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 war | cop |
| 23 | still | still | ADV | _ | 24 early | advmod |
| 24 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 27 war | advmod |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 war | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 war | det |
| 27 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 know | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | past · do-support | Hsin | the military master | then | tree rules | |||
| 2 | have | past | Hsin | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | deal | to-infinitive | Hsin not said here | with Han | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with han=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | past | master | still | as the war; early property | tree rules |
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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