石虎是他夫人杀的
“Shi Hu was killed by his wife.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
军中还有何人能降得住此贼呀
“Who else in the army could have subdued such a fierce enemy?”
石虎是他夫人杀的
“Shi Hu was killed by his wife.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
The '是...的' construction is heavily used in spoken Chinese to shift pragmatic focus onto the agent, location, or manner of a completed event.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
was killed by his wife
A classic '是...的' focal construction emphasizing the agent who performed the action.
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Shi Hu was already dead.”
“How did that woman kill Shi Hu?”
“She killed Shi Hu with only 3 strikes?”
“sparring with the heroine who killed Shi Hu.”
“Not only did we lose General Shi Hu,”
“that you killed Shi Hu with 3 hammer strikes.”