Gleanings from Chinese folklore, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics, sentence 105
After much pleading from Sun Hou the God replied, “I will give you two inches only.”
Who acts: God · What happens: reply, give · To what, where: two inches, you · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (God), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 pleading | case |
| 2 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 pleading | amod |
| 3 | pleading | pleading | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 replied | obl |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 Sun | case |
| 5 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 pleading | nmod |
| 6 | Hou | Hou | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Sun | flat |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 God | det |
| 8 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 replied | nsubj |
| 9 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 give | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 give | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 give | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 give | aux |
| 14 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 replied | ccomp |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 give | iobj |
| 16 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 inches | nummod |
| 17 | inches | inch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 give | obj |
| 18 | only | only | ADV | _ | 17 inches | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 give | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the God | after much pleading from Sun | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | give in a quote | future | the God = god | two inches | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient inch=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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