Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Hero, sentence 72

During the night, however, Han Hsin ordered an advance, and, using the bags to make a series of steps, his army went quickly up and over to the other side, to the rear of Chin Pa’s army.

Who acts: Han, army · What happens: order, use, make, go · To what, where: advance, bags, series, other side

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, 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	During	during	ADP	_	3 night	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 night	det
3	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ordered	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 night	punct
5	however	however	ADV	_	9 ordered	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 however	punct
7	Han	Han	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 ordered	nsubj
8	Hsin	Hsin	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Han	flat
9	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 advance	det
11	advance	advance	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ordered	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 using	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 using	cc
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 using	punct
15	using	use	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 ordered	advcl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 bags	det
17	bags	bag	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 using	obj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 make	mark
19	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 using	advcl
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 series	det
21	series	series	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 make	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 steps	case
23	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 series	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 went	punct
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 army	nmod:poss
26	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 went	nsubj
27	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 ordered	conj
28	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	29 up	advmod
29	up	up	ADV	_	27 went	advmod
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 over	cc
31	over	over	ADV	_	29 up	conj
32	to	to	ADP	_	35 side	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 side	det
34	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 side	amod
35	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 went	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 rear	punct
37	to	to	ADP	_	39 rear	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 rear	det
39	rear	rear	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 went	obl
40	of	of	ADP	_	44 army	case
41	Chin	Chin	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 Pa	compound
42	Pa	Pa	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 army	nmod:poss
43	’s	's	PART	_	42 Pa	case
44	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 rear	nmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 ordered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	order	past	Han	a advance		night	however property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advance=Theme
2	use	gerund	Han not said here	the bags				vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Patient
3	make	to-infinitive	Han not said here	a series of steps				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset series=Product
4	go	past	Han's army		the other side		to the rear of Chin Pa's army	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to side=Initial_Location to rear=Destination

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 72

The tree

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Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Hero, sentence 72