Gleanings from Chinese folklore, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics, sentence 117
When Sun Hou came close to it he said, “That is not the Buddha,” and refused to knock his head.
Who acts: Sun, That · What happens: come, say, not be, refuse, not knock · To what, where: temple, Buddha, head · 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, That), 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 | SCONJ | _ | 4 came | mark |
| 2 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 3 | Hou | Hou | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Sun | flat |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | advcl |
| 5 | close | close | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 came | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 came | obl |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Buddha | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Buddha | punct |
| 12 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 Buddha | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 Buddha | cop |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 Buddha | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Buddha | det |
| 16 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | ccomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Buddha | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Buddha | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 refused | cc |
| 20 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 knock | mark |
| 22 | knock | knock | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 refused | xcomp |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 head | nmod:poss |
| 24 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 knock | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Sun | temple | close property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to it=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Sun | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not is a in a quote | present | That | the Buddha | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | refuse | past | Sun not said here | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | not knock | to-infinitive | Sun not said here | Sun's head | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent head=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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