Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Hero, sentence 74

Later they recovered themselves and in many battles afterward between these two great generals neither could obtain any great advantage.

Who acts: bags, two great generals · What happens: recover, obtain · To what, where: bags, great advantage, many battles

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 (bags, two great generals), 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	Later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 recovered	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 recovered	nsubj
3	recovered	recover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 recovered	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 obtain	cc
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 battles	case
7	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 battles	amod
8	battles	battle	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 obtain	obl
9	afterward	afterward	ADV	_	14 generals	advmod
10	between	between	ADP	_	14 generals	case
11	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	14 generals	nsubj
12	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 generals	nummod
13	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 generals	amod
14	generals	general	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 obtain	nsubj
15	neither	neither	ADV	_	17 obtain	advmod
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 obtain	aux
17	obtain	obtain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 recovered	conj
18	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	20 advantage	det
19	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 advantage	amod
20	advantage	advantage	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 obtain	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 recovered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	recover	past	bags = bag	bags = bag				late property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme
2	obtain	could	two great generals these	any great advantage		many battles		neither property	vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset advantage=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 74

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Hero, sentence 74