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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Hero, sentence 43

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When the teachers heard of the outcome of the pursuit of Han Hsin they were troubled and said, “It is craft and not stupidity—go back again, overtake him and kill him.”

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**Who acts:** teachers, pursuit · **What happens:** hear, be, say, go back, overtake, kill · **To what, where:** Han Hsin, craft, Hsin · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (teachers, pursuit), 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:pg75089:9:43
# text = When the teachers heard of the outcome of the pursuit of Han Hsin they were troubled and said, “It is craft and not stupidity—go back again, overtake him and kill him.”
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	teachers	teacher	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	outcome	outcome	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	pursuit	pursuit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	Han	Han	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Hsin	Hsin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	troubled	troubled	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	acl:relcl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	craft	craft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	ccomp	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	stupidity	stupidity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
29	back	back	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	again	again	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	overtake	overtake	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
33	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	kill	kill	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	32	conj	_	_
36	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | the teachers |  |  |  |  | of the outcome of the pursuit of Han Hsin | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | past | teachers *= teacher* | Han Hsin *not said here* |  |  |  | troubled *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the teachers *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | pursuit | craft and stupidity |  |  |  | stupidity *conj* | tree rules |
| 5 | **go back** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  | again |  | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **overtake** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | Hsin |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **kill** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | Hsin |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 8 | **pursue** |  |  | Han Hsin |  |  |  |  | nom pursuit «act 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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