Gleanings from Chinese folklore, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics, sentence 121
They walked all around it but could not get out.
Who acts: feet · What happens: walk, not get out · To what, where: darkness
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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 walked | nsubj |
| 2 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | all | all | ADV | _ | 5 it | advmod |
| 4 | around | around | ADP | _ | 5 it | case |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 walked | obl |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 get | cc |
| 7 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 get | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 get | advmod |
| 9 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 walked | conj |
| 10 | out | out | ADV | _ | 9 get | advmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | feet = foot | darkness | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around it=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | not get out | could | feet = foot not said here | out property | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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