Gleanings from Chinese folklore, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics, sentence 112
They went on their journey; the monk, T’ang Sung, riding the white horse, the priest praying and reading.
Who acts: feet, priest · What happens: go, ride, pray, read, journey · To what, where: monk, journey, white horse
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 (feet, priest), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 journey | case |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 journey | nmod:poss |
| 5 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 monk | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 monk | det |
| 8 | monk | monk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 T’ang | punct |
| 10 | T’ang | T'ang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 monk | appos |
| 11 | Sung | Sung | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 T’ang | flat |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 riding | punct |
| 13 | riding | ride | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 went | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 horse | det |
| 15 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 horse | amod |
| 16 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 riding | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 priest | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 priest | det |
| 19 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 horse | appos |
| 20 | praying | pray | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 priest | acl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 reading | cc |
| 22 | reading | read | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 praying | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | feet = foot | the monk | feet's journey | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on journey=Location | |||
| 2 | ride | gerund | feet = foot not said here | the white horse | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pray | gerund | the priest not said here | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 4 | read | gerund | the priest not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | journey | feet = foot | nom journey «act transitive»: 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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