Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Hero, sentence 76

They talked over the situation, and Chang Lang said that the strength of Chin Pa was in a company of three thousand soldiers who were all related to each other, and whose officers were also of the same clan.

Who acts: friend, Chang, strength, thousand soldiers, officers · What happens: talk, say, be · To what, where: situation, company · 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 (friend, Chang, strength, thousand soldiers), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 talked	nsubj
2	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	over	over	ADP	_	5 situation	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 situation	det
5	situation	situation	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 talked	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 said	cc
8	Chang	Chang	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
9	Lang	Lang	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Chang	flat
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 talked	conj
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 company	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 strength	det
13	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 company	nsubj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 Pa	case
15	Chin	Chin	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Pa	compound
16	Pa	Pa	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 strength	nmod
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 company	cop
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 company	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 company	det
20	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	ccomp
21	of	of	ADP	_	24 soldiers	case
22	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 thousand	compound
23	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 soldiers	nummod
24	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 company	nmod
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 related	nsubj
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 related	cop
27	all	all	ADV	_	28 related	advmod
28	related	related	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 soldiers	acl:relcl
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 each	case
30	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	28 related	obl
31	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 each	fixed
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 clan	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 clan	cc
34	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	35 officers	nmod:poss
35	officers	officer	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 clan	nsubj
36	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 clan	cop
37	also	also	ADV	_	41 clan	advmod
38	of	of	ADP	_	41 clan	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 clan	det
40	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 clan	amod
41	clan	clan	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 talked	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 talked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	talk	past	friend	the situation		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	Chang			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	the strength of Chin Pa	a company	of thousand soldiers	tree rules
4	is	past	thousand soldiers		to each; all, related property	tree rules
5	is	past	the same clan's officers		of the same clan	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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🌲 Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Hero, sentence 76

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Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Hero, sentence 76