Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Opening, sentence 55

71 The Jade Treasure 82 Chinese Heroism 88 Literary Glory 92 How the Dog and Cat Came to Be Enemies 98 A Daughter of the Present 106 T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics 110 A Story of Old China 124

Who acts: Dog, Enemies · What happens: come, be, journey, get · To what, where: Enemies, Story, Buddhist Classics, 71

This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dog, Enemies), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	71	71	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Treasure	det
3	Jade	Jade	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Treasure	compound
4	Treasure	Treasure	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 71	nmod:unmarked
5	82	82	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 Heroism	nummod
6	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Heroism	amod
7	Heroism	Heroism	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Treasure	nmod
8	88	88	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 Heroism	flat
9	Literary	Literary	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Glory	compound
10	Glory	Glory	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 92	nmod:unmarked
11	92	92	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 Heroism	list
12	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	17 Came	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Dog	det
14	Dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 Came	nsubj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 Cat	cc
16	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 Dog	conj
17	Came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 92	advcl
18	to	to	PART	_	20 Enemies	mark
19	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 Enemies	cop
20	Enemies	enemy	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 Journey	nsubj
21	98	98	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	20 Enemies	flat
22	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 Daughter	det
23	Daughter	Daughter	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 Journey	nsubj
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 Present	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Present	det
26	Present	Present	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Daughter	nmod
27	106	106	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	31 Journey	nummod
28	T’ang	T'ang	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 Journey	nmod:poss
29	Sung	Sung	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 T’ang	flat
30	’s	's	PART	_	28 T’ang	case
31	Journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 Came	conj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 Get	mark
33	Get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 Journey	acl
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 Classics	det
35	Buddhist	Buddhist	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 Classics	compound
36	Classics	Classic	PROPN	Number=Plur	33 Get	obj
37	110	110	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	36 Classics	flat
38	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 Story	det
39	Story	Story	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 Get	obj
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 China	case
41	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 China	amod
42	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 Story	nmod
43	124	124	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	33 Get	obl:unmarked

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	come	past	the Dog and Cat				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	to-infinitive		Enemies			tree rules
3	journey		Enemies			a Daughter of the Present nsubj; T’ang nmod:poss	tree rules
4	get	to-infinitive	the Dog and Cat not said here	a Story of Old China	the Buddhist Classics	124 obl:unmarked	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent classic=Beneficiary story=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: «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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🌲 Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Opening, sentence 55

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Opening, sentence 55