performers of actions in 自らも同行すると言い出して聞かず


X went on a mission, the speaker just appeared in scene as well.

> x 「出陣は久々だなぁ・・・ふふっ、なんだか気分が高揚するよ」
>
> 手勢を連れて村へ様子を見に行っていたXが戻ってきて、俺に声を掛けてくる。
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> 突然自らも同行すると言い出して聞かず、さらにXの希望で俺まで連れ出されたのだ。

さらにXの希望で俺まで連れ出されたのだ。 is indicating that the speaker was dragged here because
of X's wishes as an extra reason.

Without this knowledge, if the sentence were cut off at

> 突然自らも同行すると言い出して聞かず---

Who is doing 言い出して and 聞かず seems to be hard to determine. Even knowing the 2nd
half of the sentence I'm not sure, because no passive forms are used.




It can be parsed more easily if you know that:

> ～と聞かない  
>  ～と言って聞かない

and their variations are an idiomatic expression to mean "stubbornly persist
that --", literally "saying that -- and don't listen". 聞かず is the proper
continuative form (中止法) of 聞かない (you can use neither 聞かないで nor 聞かなくて here).

It chiefly describes that one insists on something because of personal or
emotional reasons. In a situation somebody makes a formal argument, 譲らない fits
much better than 聞かない.

Anyway, there is only one actor assignable in this clause. Since last
sentence's subject is X, and no explicit subject introduced in this part, it
will be naturally X.

> 突然自らも同行すると言い出して聞かず、…  
>  _X suddenly started to insist strongly that s/he would go as well, ..._




It can be parsed more easily if you know that:

> ～と聞かない  
>  ～と言って聞かない

and their variations are an idiomatic expression to mean "stubbornly persist
that --", literally "saying that -- and don't listen". 聞かず is the proper
continuative form (中止法) of 聞かない (you can use neither 聞かないで nor 聞かなくて here).

It chiefly describes that one insists on something because of personal or
emotional reasons. In a situation somebody makes a formal argument, 譲らない fits
much better than 聞かない.

Anyway, there is only one actor assignable in this clause. Since last
sentence's subject is X, and no explicit subject introduced in this part, it
will be naturally X.

> 突然自らも同行すると言い出して聞かず、…  
>  _X suddenly started to insist strongly that s/he would go as well, ..._

