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title: They talked over the situation, and Chang Lang said that the strengt… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Hero, sentence 76

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They talked over the situation, and Chang Lang said that the strength of Chin Pa was in a company of three thousand soldiers who were all related to each other, and whose officers were also of the same clan.

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**Who acts:** friend, Chang, strength, thousand soldiers, officers · **What happens:** talk, say, be · **To what, where:** situation, company · **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 (friend, Chang, strength, thousand soldiers), 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:pg75089:9:76
# text = They talked over the situation, and Chang Lang said that the strength of Chin Pa was in a company of three thousand soldiers who were all related to each other, and whose officers were also of the same clan.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	talked	talk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	over	over	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	situation	situation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	Chang	Chang	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	Lang	Lang	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	Chin	Chin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Pa	Pa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	ccomp	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	compound	_	_
23	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
25	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
26	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
27	all	all	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	related	related	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	acl:relcl	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	28	obl	_	_
31	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
34	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	officers	officer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nsubj	_	_
36	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	cop	_	_
37	also	also	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	clan	clan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **talk** | past | friend |  |  | the situation |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Chang |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | the strength of Chin Pa |  |  | a company |  | of thousand soldiers | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past | thousand soldiers |  |  |  |  | to each; all, related *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | past | the same clan's officers |  |  |  |  | of the same clan | 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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