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title: During the night, however, Han Hsin ordered an advance, and, using t… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: During the night, however, Han Hsin ordered an advance, and, using the bags to make a series of steps, his army went quickly up and over to the other side, to the rear of Chin Pa’s army. Who acts: Han, army. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Chinese Hero, wit
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Hero, sentence 72

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During the night, however, Han Hsin ordered an advance, and, using the bags to make a series of steps, his army went quickly up and over to the other side, to the rear of Chin Pa’s army.

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**Who acts:** Han, army · **What happens:** order, use, make, go · **To what, where:** advance, bags, series, other side

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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 (Han, 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:pg75089:9:72
# text = During the night, however, Han Hsin ordered an advance, and, using the bags to make a series of steps, his army went quickly up and over to the other side, to the rear of Chin Pa’s army.
1	During	during	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	however	however	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	Han	Han	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	Hsin	Hsin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	advance	advance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	using	use	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	bags	bag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	series	series	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
28	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	up	up	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	over	over	ADV	RB	_	29	conj	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	to	to	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	rear	rear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
41	Chin	Chin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	_
42	Pa	Pa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	’s	's	PART	POS	_	42	case	_	_
44	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **order** | past | Han | a advance |  |  | night | however *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advance=Theme |
| 2 | **use** | gerund | Han *not said here* | the bags |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Patient |
| 3 | **make** | to-infinitive | Han *not said here* | a series of steps |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset series=Product |
| 4 | **go** | past | Han's army |  |  | the other side |  | to the rear of Chin Pa's army | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to side=Initial\_Location to rear=Destination |

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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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