Gleanings from Chinese folklore, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics, sentence 107
If you can get two inches you can get more, and then I will let you go.”
Who acts: you, I · What happens: get, let, go · To what, where: two inches, more, you
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, 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 get | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 get | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 get | aux |
| 4 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 inches | nummod |
| 6 | inches | inch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 get | obj |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 get | nsubj |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 get | aux |
| 9 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 inches | acl:relcl |
| 10 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 get | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 let | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 let | cc |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 let | advmod |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 let | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 let | aux |
| 16 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 get | conj |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 let | obj |
| 18 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 let | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 get | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | can | you | two inches | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer inch=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | get | can | you | more | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | let | future | I | you | then | tree rules | |||
| 4 | go | infinitive | you not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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