Gleanings from Chinese folklore, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics, sentence 10
The monkey was very changeful in his disposition and the monk had a hard time making him mind.
Who acts: monkey, hard time · What happens: be, have, make, mind · To what, where: disposition, monkey
This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (monkey, hard time), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 monkey | det |
| 2 | monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 changeful | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 changeful | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 changeful | advmod |
| 5 | changeful | changeful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 disposition | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 disposition | nmod:poss |
| 8 | disposition | disposition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 had | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 monk | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 monk | det |
| 11 | monk | monk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 disposition | conj |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 changeful | parataxis |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 time | det |
| 14 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 time | amod |
| 15 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 had | obj |
| 16 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 time | acl |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 making | obj |
| 18 | mind | mind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 making | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 changeful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the monkey | changeful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | past | monkey's disposition and the monk | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | make | gerund | a hard time not said here | monkey | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | mind | infinitive | monkey not said here | vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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