Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Hero, sentence 81

All these years Han Hsin had remembered how Chin Pa had laughed at his small stature, but he was that night to show him that, though small, he was formidable as an enemy.

Who acts: Han, small stature · What happens: remember, laugh, be, show · To what, where: Chin Pa, night, that, Han

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, small stature), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 years	det:predet
2	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 years	det
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 remembered	obl
4	Han	Han	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 remembered	nsubj
5	Hsin	Hsin	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Han	flat
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 remembered	aux
7	remembered	remember	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	12 laughed	advmod
9	Chin	Chin	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Pa	compound
10	Pa	Pa	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 laughed	nsubj:pass
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 laughed	aux
12	laughed	laugh	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 remembered	parataxis
13	at	at	ADP	_	16 stature	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 stature	nmod:poss
15	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 stature	amod
16	stature	stature	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 laughed	obl:agent
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 night	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 night	cc
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 night	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 night	cop
21	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 night	det
22	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 remembered	obl
23	to	to	PART	_	24 show	mark
24	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 remembered	advcl
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 show	iobj
26	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 show	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 formidable	punct
28	though	though	SCONJ	_	29 small	mark
29	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 formidable	advcl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 small	punct
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 formidable	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 formidable	cop
33	formidable	formidable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 remembered	parataxis
34	as	as	ADP	_	36 enemy	case
35	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 enemy	det
36	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 formidable	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 remembered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	remember	past · perfect	Han			year		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	laugh	past · perfect · passive	Han's small stature	Chin Pa				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
3	is a	past	Han	that night				tree rules
4	show	to-infinitive	Han not said here	that	Han			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient that=Topic
5	is	past	Han				as a enemy; formidable 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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🌲 Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Hero, sentence 81

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Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Hero, sentence 81