Gleanings from Chinese folklore, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics, sentence 109
“That is too much,” replied the king, “but a little more than we need is no great matter, only get it.”
Who acts: That, much, we, king · What happens: be, reply, need, get · To what, where: great matter, matter · 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 (That, much, we, king), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 much | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 much | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 much | cop |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 much | advmod |
| 5 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 replied | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 much | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 much | punct |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 king | det |
| 10 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 matter | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 more | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 more | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 more | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 little | det |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 more | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 king | acl:relcl |
| 17 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 19 need | mark |
| 18 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 need | nsubj |
| 19 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 more | advcl |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 matter | cop |
| 21 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 23 matter | det |
| 22 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 matter | amod |
| 23 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | ccomp |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 get | punct |
| 25 | only | only | ADV | _ | 26 get | advmod |
| 26 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 23 matter | parataxis |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 get | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 get | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | That | much property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | much | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | need in a quote | present | we | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | the king | no great matter | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | get in a quote | infinitive | matter | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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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