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Gleanings from Chinese folklore, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics, sentence 12

Going along a few more miles they met a pig, and on hearing from the monkey where they were going, said he also would go and help find the books.

Who acts: miles, monkey · What happens: go, meet, say, help, find · To what, where: pig, hearing, books · 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 (miles, monkey), 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

advclcasedetamodamodoblnsubjdetobjpunctcccaseoblcasedetnmodadvmodnsubjauxacl:relclpunctconjnsubjadvmodauxccompccconjxcompdetobjpunctrootGoingVERBalongADPaDETfewADJmoreADJmilesNOUNtheyPRONmetVERBaDETpigNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJonADPhearingNOUNfromADPtheDETmonkeyNOUNwhereADVtheyPRONwereAUXgoingVERB,PUNCTsaidVERBhePRONalsoADVwouldAUXgoVERBandCCONJhelpVERBfindVERBtheDETbooksNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1GoinggoVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part8 metadvcl
2alongalongADP_6 milescase
3aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art6 milesdet
4fewfewADJDegree=Pos6 milesamod
5moremoreADJDegree=Cmp6 milesamod
6milesmileNOUNNumber=Plur1 Goingobl
7theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs8 metnsubj
8metmeetVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
9aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art10 pigdet
10pigpigNOUNNumber=Sing8 metobj
11,,PUNCT_23 saidpunct
12andandCCONJ_23 saidcc
13ononADP_14 hearingcase
14hearinghearingNOUNNumber=Sing23 saidobl
15fromfromADP_17 monkeycase
16thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art17 monkeydet
17monkeymonkeyNOUNNumber=Sing14 hearingnmod
18wherewhereADVPronType=Rel21 goingadvmod
19theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs21 goingnsubj
20werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin21 goingaux
21goinggoVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part17 monkeyacl:relcl
22,,PUNCT_14 hearingpunct
23saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin8 metconj
24hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs27 gonsubj
25alsoalsoADV_27 goadvmod
26wouldwouldAUXVerbForm=Fin27 goaux
27gogoVERBVerbForm=Inf23 saidccomp
28andandCCONJ_29 helpcc
29helphelpVERBVerbForm=Inf27 goconj
30findfindVERBVerbForm=Inf29 helpxcomp
31thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art32 booksdet
32booksbookNOUNNumber=Plur30 findobj
33..PUNCT_8 metpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1gogerundmiles = mile not said herealong a few more milesvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme along mile=Initial_Location
2meetpastmiles = milea pigvn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pig=Co-Agent
3gopast · progressivemiles = milevn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4say speech: assertpastmiles = mile not said herehearing from the monkeyvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5gowouldmonkeyvn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6helpinfinitivemonkey not said herevn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
7findinfinitivemonkey not said herethe booksvn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=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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