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title: Here Han Hsin attacked the enemy in force and easily put them to fli… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: Here Han Hsin attacked the enemy in force and easily put them to flight. Who acts: Han. 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 73

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Here Han Hsin attacked the enemy in force and easily put them to flight.

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**Who acts:** Han · **What happens:** attack, put · **To what, where:** enemy, force, bags

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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), 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:pg75089:9:73
# text = Here Han Hsin attacked the enemy in force and easily put them to flight.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	Han	Han	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Hsin	Hsin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	attacked	attack	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	force	force	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	flight	flight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **attack** | past | Han | the enemy |  | force; here |  |  | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enemy=Patient |
| 2 | **put** | infinitive | Han *not said here* | bags *= bag* |  |  |  | to flight; easily *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Goal |

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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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