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title: Captain Hall had asked some of the foreign ladies to have charge of… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: Captain Hall had asked some of the foreign ladies to have charge of getting the Chinese women and children into the chapel when the order was given. Who acts: Captain, some, charge. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Chinese Heroism, with its dependency tree and
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Chinese Heroism, sentence 12

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Captain Hall had asked some of the foreign ladies to have charge of getting the Chinese women and children into the chapel when the order was given.

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**Who acts:** Captain, some, charge · **What happens:** ask, have, get, give · **To what, where:** some, charge, Chinese women, chapel, order

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This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Chinese Heroism. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Captain, some, charge), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg75089:12:12
# text = Captain Hall had asked some of the foreign ladies to have charge of getting the Chinese women and children into the chapel when the order was given.
1	Captain	Captain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	Hall	Hall	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	asked	ask	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
12	charge	charge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	getting	get	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
20	into	into	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	chapel	chapel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
23	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	27	mark	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past · perfect | Captain | some of the foreign ladies |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent some=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **have** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | some of the foreign ladies *not said here* | charge |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charge=Patient |
| 3 | **get** | gerund | charge *not said here* | the Chinese women and children |  | the chapel |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus |
| 4 | **give** | past · passive |  | the order |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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.

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**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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