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title: After we were all in we asked the soldiers on guard to let us go onc… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: After we were all in we asked the soldiers on guard to let us go once more through the house set aside for the Chinese. Who acts: we, us. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Chinese Heroism, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Chinese Heroism, sentence 21

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After we were all in we asked the soldiers on guard to let us go once more through the house set aside for the Chinese.

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**Who acts:** we, us · **What happens:** be, let, go, set · **To what, where:** us, house · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (we, us), 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:pg75089:12:21
# text = After we were all in we asked the soldiers on guard to let us go once more through the house set aside for the Chinese.
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
2	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	all	all	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
5	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	guard	guard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
14	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	17	advmod	_	_
17	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	15	advmod	_	_
18	through	through	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
21	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl	_	_
22	aside	aside	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** *speech: ask* | past | we |  |  |  |  | the soldiers *obj*; all, ask *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **let** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | infinitive | us *not said here* |  |  | the house |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through house=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **set** | participle |  | the house *not said here* |  |  |  | for the Chinese; aside *property* | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for chinese=Beneficiary |

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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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