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title: Feeling secure in the thought that the army under Han Hsin could not… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: Feeling secure in the thought that the army under Han Hsin could not cross that night, they made a camp and had a feast. Who acts: kingdoms, army. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Chinese Hero, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Hero, sentence 58

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Feeling secure in the thought that the army under Han Hsin could not cross that night, they made a camp and had a feast.

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**Who acts:** kingdoms, army · **What happens:** feel, not cross, make, have · **To what, where:** thought, camp, feast

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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 (kingdoms, 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:pg75089:9:58
# text = Feeling secure in the thought that the army under Han Hsin could not cross that night, they made a camp and had a feast.
1	Feeling	feel	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
2	secure	secure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
9	under	under	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	Han	Han	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Hsin	Hsin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	cross	cross	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl:relcl	_	_
15	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | gerund | kingdoms *= kingdom* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in the thought; secure *property* | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Theme in thought=Attribute |
| 2 | **not** **cross** | could | the army under Han Hsin | the thought *not said here* |  |  | night |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thought=Patient |
| 3 | **make** | past | kingdoms *= kingdom* | a camp |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset camp=Product |
| 4 | **have** | past | kingdoms *= kingdom* *not said here* | a feast |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feast=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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