Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Hero, sentence 85

It was dark enough to prevent them from seeing Han Hsin at the height and distance he was from them.

Who acts: kite, Hsin · What happens: be, prevent, see · To what, where: officers, Han Hsin, height

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 (kite, Hsin), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 dark	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dark	cop
3	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	enough	enough	ADV	_	3 dark	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 prevent	mark
6	prevent	prevent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 dark	advcl
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 prevent	obj
8	from	from	SCONJ	_	9 seeing	mark
9	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 prevent	advcl
10	Han	Han	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Hsin	compound
11	Hsin	Hsin	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 seeing	obj
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 height	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 height	det
14	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 seeing	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 distance	cc
16	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 height	conj
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 them	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 them	cop
19	from	from	ADP	_	20 them	case
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 height	acl:relcl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 dark	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	kite			dark, enough property	tree rules
2	prevent	to-infinitive	kite not said here	officers = officer			vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer they=Theme
3	see	gerund	kite not said here	Han Hsin	the height and distance		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hsin=Stimulus
4	is	past	Hsin	the height and distance not said here		from officers = officer	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 85

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Hero, sentence 85