Gleanings from Chinese folklore, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics, sentence 100
See what frauds they are, and how they impose on you and the people.”
Who acts: you, frauds · What happens: see, impose · To what, where: frauds
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 (you, frauds), 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 | See | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 3 frauds | det |
| 3 | frauds | fraud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 See | obj |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 are | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 frauds | acl:relcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 impose | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 impose | cc |
| 8 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 impose | advmod |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 impose | nsubj |
| 10 | impose | impose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 See | parataxis |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 you | case |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 impose | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 people | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 people | det |
| 15 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 you | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 See | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 See | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | imperative | you not said here | what frauds | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fraud=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | impose | present | frauds = fraud | on you | vn enforce-63 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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