Gleanings from Chinese folklore, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics, sentence 125
Then he let the soldiers out of the iron cow—and the great demon got a great string and bound them and put them in a cave.
Who acts: Sun, great demon · What happens: let, get, bound, put · To what, where: soldiers, great string, cave
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, great demon), 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 | 3 let | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 let | nsubj |
| 3 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 soldiers | det |
| 5 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 let | obj |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 cow | case |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 cow | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 cow | det |
| 9 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cow | compound |
| 10 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 let | obl |
| 11 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 got | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 got | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 demon | det |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 demon | amod |
| 15 | demon | demon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 got | nsubj |
| 16 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 let | parataxis |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 string | det |
| 18 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 string | amod |
| 19 | string | string | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 got | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 bound | cc |
| 21 | bound | bound | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 got | conj |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 bound | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 put | cc |
| 24 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 bound | conj |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 put | obj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 cave | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 cave | det |
| 28 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 put | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | past | Sun | the soldiers | then | out the iron cow | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soldier=Theme | ||
| 2 | get | past | the great demon | a great string | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer string=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | bound | infinitive | the great demon not said here | Soldiers = soldier | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location they=Theme | ||||
| 4 | put | infinitive | the great demon not said here | Soldiers = soldier | a cave | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in cave=Destination |
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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