Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5, sentence 102
More than twelve centuries ago, Hiouen-Thsang transferred the following story from India to China.
Who acts: Hiouen · What happens: transfer, follow · To what, where: following story, China, India
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hiouen), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | More | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 3 twelve | advmod |
| 2 | than | than | ADP | _ | 1 More | fixed |
| 3 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 centuries | nummod |
| 4 | centuries | century | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 10 transferred | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 ago | punct |
| 7 | Hiouen | Hiouen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 transferred | nsubj |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Hiouen | punct |
| 9 | Thsang | Thsang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Hiouen | flat |
| 10 | transferred | transfer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 story | det |
| 12 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 story | amod |
| 13 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 transferred | obj |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 India | case |
| 15 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 story | nmod |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 China | case |
| 17 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 transferred | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 transferred | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | transfer | past | Hiouen | the following story | China | India | ago property | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent story=Theme to china=Destination from india=Initial_Location | |
| 2 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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.
Text: «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (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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