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title: In some way that company must be disbanded or Han Hsin never would w… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: In some way that company must be disbanded or Han Hsin never would win the final victory. 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 77

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In some way that company must be disbanded or Han Hsin never would win the final victory.

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**What happens:** disband, not win · **To what, where:** Han, way, final victory

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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: 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:pg75089:9:77
# text = In some way that company must be disbanded or Han Hsin never would win the final victory.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
3	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	det	_	_
5	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	disbanded	disband	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	Han	Han	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	Hsin	Hsin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
12	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
13	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	win	win	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	final	final	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	victory	victory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **disband** | must · passive |  | Han |  | some way  that company |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V» |
| 2 | **not** **win** | would |  | the final victory |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent victory=Eventuality |

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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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