Gleanings from Chinese folklore, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics, sentence 11
After going a few miles he met a holy man who said, “If he does not mind you I will tell you something to say to him which will make his head ache, and he will go quietly with you.”
Who acts: monkey, holy man · What happens: go, meet, say, not mind, tell, make · To what, where: few miles, holy man, you, something, monkey, head ache · 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 (monkey, holy man), 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 | SCONJ | _ | 2 going | mark |
| 2 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 met | advcl |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 miles | det |
| 4 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 miles | amod |
| 5 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 going | obj |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 met | nsubj |
| 7 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 man | det |
| 9 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 man | amod |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 met | obj |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 said | nsubj |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 man | acl:relcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 tell | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 tell | punct |
| 15 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 mind | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 mind | nsubj |
| 17 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 mind | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 mind | advmod |
| 19 | mind | mind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 tell | advcl |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 mind | obj |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 tell | nsubj |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 tell | aux |
| 23 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 tell | iobj |
| 25 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 23 tell | obj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 say | mark |
| 27 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 something | acl |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 him | case |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 say | obl |
| 30 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 make | nsubj |
| 31 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 make | aux |
| 32 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 say | ccomp |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 ache | nmod:poss |
| 34 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 ache | compound |
| 35 | ache | ache | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 make | obj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 go | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 go | cc |
| 38 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 go | nsubj |
| 39 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 go | aux |
| 40 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 tell | ccomp |
| 41 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 40 go | advmod |
| 42 | with | with | ADP | _ | 43 you | case |
| 43 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 40 go | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 met | punct |
| 45 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | gerund | monkey not said here | a few miles | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mile=Theme | ||||
| 2 | meet | past | monkey | a holy man | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | a holy man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | not mind a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present · do-support | monkey | you | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert in a quote | future | a holy man = man | something | you | tree rules | |||
| 6 | say speech: assert in a quote | to-infinitive | a holy man = man not said here | something not said here | monkey | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient whether/if S»: agent=Pivot to he=Experiencer clause=Topic | |||
| 7 | make in a quote | future | monkey's head ache | which nsubj | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset ache=Product | ||||
| 8 | go in a quote | future | monkey | with you; quietly property | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with you=Beneficiary | ||||
| 9 | ache in a quote | monkey | nom ache «state intransitive»: poss=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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