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title: But, at last, after much persuasion, he gave a reluctant permission… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: But, at last, after much persuasion, he gave a reluctant permission for him to be made leader of the army which was about to set out to attack Chin Pa. Who acts: prince, army. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Chinese Hero, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Hero, sentence 52

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But, at last, after much persuasion, he gave a reluctant permission for him to be made leader of the army which was about to set out to attack Chin Pa.

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**Who acts:** prince, army · **What happens:** give, make, be, set out, attack · **To what, where:** reluctant permission, last, leader, Chin Pa

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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, army), 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:pg75089:9:52
# text = But, at last, after much persuasion, he gave a reluctant permission for him to be made leader of the army which was about to set out to attack Chin Pa.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	after	after	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	persuasion	persuasion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	reluctant	reluctant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	permission	permission	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	advcl	_	_
20	leader	leader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	xcomp	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	about	about	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	acl:relcl	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
29	out	out	ADP	RP	_	28	compound:prt	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	attack	attack	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
32	Chin	Chin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	Pa	Pa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | prince | a reluctant permission |  | last after much persuasion |  | for man | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent permission=Theme at last=Asset |
| 2 | **make** | to-infinitive · passive | prince *not said here* | leader of the army |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP» |
| 3 | **is** | past | the army |  |  |  |  | about *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **set out** | to-infinitive | the army *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **attack** | to-infinitive | the army *not said here* | Chin Pa |  |  |  |  | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pa=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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