Gleanings from Chinese folklore, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics, sentence 123
Then Sun Hou repeated his wonderful charm and twenty-eight soldiers from the great lord of the Heaven suddenly came in the shape of a great cow.
Who acts: Sun · What happens: repeat, come · To what, where: wonderful charm, shape
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), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 repeated | advmod |
| 2 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 repeated | nsubj |
| 3 | Hou | Hou | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Sun | flat |
| 4 | repeated | repeat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 charm | nmod:poss |
| 6 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 charm | amod |
| 7 | charm | charm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 repeated | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 soldiers | cc |
| 9 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 eight | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 twenty | punct |
| 11 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 soldiers | nummod |
| 12 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 charm | conj |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 lord | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 lord | det |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 lord | amod |
| 16 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 came | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Heaven | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Heaven | det |
| 19 | Heaven | Heaven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 lord | nmod |
| 20 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 21 came | advmod |
| 21 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 repeated | conj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 shape | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 shape | det |
| 24 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 came | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 cow | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 cow | det |
| 27 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 cow | amod |
| 28 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 shape | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 repeated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | repeat | past | Sun | Sun's wonderful charm and eight soldiers | then | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charm=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | come | past | Sun not said here | the shape of a great cow | from the great lord of the Heaven; suddenly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from lord=Initial_Location |
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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