Gleanings from Chinese folklore, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics, sentence 116
When they saw the name of the temple they knocked their heads and went slowly forward until they saw what seemed a great image of Buddha.
Who acts: feet · What happens: see, knock, go, seem, name, image · To what, where: name, heads, great image, temple, Buddha · 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 (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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 saw | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 knocked | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 name | det |
| 5 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 temple | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 temple | det |
| 8 | temple | temple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 name | nmod |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 knocked | nsubj |
| 10 | knocked | knock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 heads | nmod:poss |
| 12 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 knocked | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 went | cc |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 knocked | conj |
| 15 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 14 went | advmod |
| 16 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 14 went | advmod |
| 17 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 19 saw | mark |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 saw | nsubj |
| 19 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 went | advcl |
| 20 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 21 seemed | nsubj |
| 21 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 saw | ccomp |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 image | det |
| 23 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 image | amod |
| 24 | image | image | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 seemed | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Buddha | case |
| 26 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 image | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 knocked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | feet = foot | the name of the temple | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer name=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | knock | past | feet = foot | feet's heads | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent head=Patient | ||||
| 3 | go | past | feet = foot not said here | forward, slowly property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | see | past | feet = foot | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | seem | past | a great image of Buddha | what nsubj | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme image=Attribute | ||||
| 6 | name | the temple | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 7 | image | Buddha | nom image «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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