Gleanings from Chinese folklore, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics, sentence 118
Just then a voice said, “Why do you not knock your head?” to which Sun Hou replied, “I do not think you look like Buddha.”
Who acts: voice, you, Sun · What happens: say, not knock, reply, not think, look · To what, where: 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 (voice, you, Sun), 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 5 said | advmod |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 said | advmod |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 voice | det |
| 4 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 knock | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 knock | punct |
| 8 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 knock | advmod |
| 9 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 knock | aux |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 knock | nsubj |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 knock | advmod |
| 12 | knock | knock | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 head | nmod:poss |
| 14 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 knock | obj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 knock | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 which | case |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 replied | obl |
| 19 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 replied | nsubj |
| 20 | Hou | Hou | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Sun | flat |
| 21 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | parataxis |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 think | punct |
| 23 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 think | punct |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 think | nsubj |
| 25 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 think | aux |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 think | advmod |
| 27 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 replied | advcl |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 look | nsubj |
| 29 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 think | ccomp |
| 30 | like | like | ADP | _ | 31 Buddha | case |
| 31 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 look | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 33 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | a voice | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not knock in a quote | present · do-support | you | your head | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent head=Patient | ||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | Sun | which obl | vn respond-113 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to which=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not think speech: other in a quote | present · do-support | Sun | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | look in a quote | present | you | like Buddha | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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