Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Tea-house Story, sentence 69
Why do I repeat the name of the great Buddha hundreds of times each day, before anything to eat or drink crosses my lips?
Who acts: I · What happens: repeat, eat, drink, name · To what, where: name, crosses, great Buddha hundreds
This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Chinese Tea-house Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 repeat | advmod |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 repeat | aux |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 repeat | nsubj |
| 4 | repeat | repeat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 name | det |
| 6 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 repeat | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 hundreds | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hundreds | det |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 hundreds | amod |
| 10 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 hundreds | compound |
| 11 | hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 name | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 times | case |
| 13 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 hundreds | nmod |
| 14 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 day | det |
| 15 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 repeat | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 anything | punct |
| 17 | before | before | ADP | _ | 18 anything | case |
| 18 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 repeat | parataxis |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 eat | mark |
| 20 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 anything | acl |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 drink | cc |
| 22 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 eat | conj |
| 23 | crosses | cross | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 drink | obj |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 lips | nmod:poss |
| 25 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 drink | obj |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 repeat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | repeat | present · do-support | I | the name of the great Buddha hundreds of times | day | anything parataxis | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Eventuality | ||
| 2 | eat | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | drink | infinitive | I not said here | crosses | my lips obj | tree rules | |||
| 4 | name | the great Buddha hundreds of times | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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