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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Hero, sentence 50

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At that time this Prince was at war with Chin Pa and was very hard pressed by the latter, and anxious to surround himself with wise men.

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**Who acts:** Prince · **What happens:** be, press, surround · **To what, where:** war, prince

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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 (Prince), 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:pg75089:9:50
# text = At that time this Prince was at war with Chin Pa and was very hard pressed by the latter, and anxious to surround himself with wise men.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	Chin	Chin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Pa	Pa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
14	very	very	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	advmod	_	_
16	pressed	press	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	latter	latter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	anxious	anxious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	parataxis	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	surround	surround	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	24	obj	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | this Prince |  |  | war |  | with Chin Pa | tree rules |
| 2 | **press** | past · passive | this Prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by the latter; hard *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP» |
| 3 | **surround** | to-infinitive | this Prince *not said here* | prince |  |  |  | with wise men | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent himself=Destination with man=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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