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title: She was given command of the army in place of Kao Chun Pao, who was… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: She was given command of the army in place of Kao Chun Pao, who was allowed to accompany her as assistant. Who acts: Kao Chun. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Tartar Joan of Arc, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Tartar Joan of Arc, sentence 32

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She was given command of the army in place of Kao Chun Pao, who was allowed to accompany her as assistant.

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**Who acts:** Kao Chun · **What happens:** give, allow, accompany, command · **To what, where:** wife, place, Kao Chun, army · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Tartar Joan of Arc. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kao Chun), 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:pg75089:6:32
# text = She was given command of the army in place of Kao Chun Pao, who was allowed to accompany her as assistant.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	command	command	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	Kao	Kao	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Chun	Chun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	Pao	Pao	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	allowed	allow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl:relcl	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	accompany	accompany	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	assistant	assistant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past · passive |  | wife |  | place of Kao Chun |  | command of the army *obj* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient command=Theme |
| 2 | **allow** | past · passive |  | Kao Chun |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **accompany** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Kao Chun *not said here* | wife |  |  |  | as assistant | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 4 | **command** |  |  | the army |  |  |  |  | nom command «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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