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description: He did not even then know the military master that he had to deal with in Han Hsin, as it was still early in the war. Who acts: Hsin, master. 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 67

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He did not even then know the military master that he had to deal with in Han Hsin, as it was still early in the war.

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**Who acts:** Hsin, master · **What happens:** not know, have, deal, be · **To what, where:** military master · **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 (Hsin, master), 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:pg75089:9:67
# text = He did not even then know the military master that he had to deal with in Han Hsin, as it was still early in the war.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
4	even	even	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
6	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	military	military	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	deal	deal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Han	Han	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	Hsin	Hsin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
20	as	as	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
23	still	still	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	27	advmod	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **know** | past · do-support | Hsin | the military master |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | past | Hsin |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **deal** | to-infinitive | Hsin *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with Han | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with han=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | master |  |  |  | still | as the war; early *property* | tree rules |

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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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