Gleanings from Chinese folklore, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics, sentence 115
Sun Hou told the priest he did not think the temple was safe, but the priest said it must be because it was a temple, and he was sure they would find rest and food.
Who acts: Sun, temple, priest, feet · What happens: tell, not think, be, say, find · To what, where: priest, temple, rest · 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 (Sun, temple, priest, feet), 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 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 told | nsubj |
| 2 | Hou | Hou | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Sun | flat |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 priest | det |
| 5 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 told | iobj |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 think | nsubj |
| 7 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 think | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 think | advmod |
| 9 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 told | ccomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 temple | det |
| 11 | temple | temple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 safe | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 safe | cop |
| 13 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 think | ccomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 said | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 priest | det |
| 17 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 said | nsubj |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 told | parataxis |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 temple | nsubj |
| 20 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 temple | aux |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 temple | cop |
| 22 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 26 temple | mark |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 temple | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 temple | cop |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 temple | det |
| 26 | temple | temple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 said | ccomp |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 sure | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 sure | cc |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 sure | nsubj |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 sure | cop |
| 31 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 said | conj |
| 32 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 find | nsubj |
| 33 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 find | aux |
| 34 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 sure | ccomp |
| 35 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 find | obj |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 food | cc |
| 37 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 rest | conj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | Sun | the priest | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent priest=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not think speech: other | past · do-support | Sun | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | the temple | safe property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the priest | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is a | must | temple | a temple | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | is | past | Sun | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | find | would | feet = foot | rest and food | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Topic |
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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