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Gleanings from Chinese folklore, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics, sentence 126

Sun Hou gradually grew smaller and his rope loosened and he escaped; with one jump he reached Heaven and brought down many soldiers from the great God.

Who acts: Sun, rope · What happens: grow, loosen, escape, reach, bring down · To what, where: Heaven, many soldiers

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, rope), 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

nsubjflatadvmodxcompccnmod:possnsubjconjccnsubjconjpunctcasenummodoblnsubjconjobjccconjadvmodamodobjcasedetamodoblpunctrootSunPROPNHouPROPNgraduallyADVgrewVERBsmallerADJandCCONJhisPRONropeNOUNloosenedVERBandCCONJhePRONescapedVERB;PUNCTwithADPoneNUMjumpNOUNhePRONreachedVERBHeavenPROPNandCCONJbroughtVERBdownADVmanyADJsoldiersNOUNfromADPtheDETgreatADJGodPROPN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SunSunPROPNNumber=Sing4 grewnsubj
2HouHouPROPNNumber=Sing1 Sunflat
3graduallygraduallyADV_4 grewadvmod
4grewgrowVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
5smallersmallADJDegree=Cmp4 grewxcomp
6andandCCONJ_9 loosenedcc
7hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs8 ropenmod:poss
8roperopeNOUNNumber=Sing9 loosenednsubj
9loosenedloosenVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 grewconj
10andandCCONJ_12 escapedcc
11hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs12 escapednsubj
12escapedescapeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 loosenedconj
13;;PUNCT_18 reachedpunct
14withwithADP_16 jumpcase
15oneoneNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card16 jumpnummod
16jumpjumpNOUNNumber=Sing18 reachedobl
17hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs18 reachednsubj
18reachedreachVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 grewconj
19HeavenHeavenPROPNNumber=Sing18 reachedobj
20andandCCONJ_21 broughtcc
21broughtbringVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin18 reachedconj
22downdownADV_21 broughtadvmod
23manymanyADJDegree=Pos24 soldiersamod
24soldierssoldierNOUNNumber=Plur21 broughtobj
25fromfromADP_28 Godcase
26thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art28 Goddet
27greatgreatADJDegree=Pos28 Godamod
28GodGodPROPNNumber=Sing21 broughtobl
29..PUNCT_4 grewpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1growpastSungradually, small propertyvn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2loosenpastSun's ropevn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3escapepastSunvn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4reachpastSunHeavenwith one jumpvn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent heaven=Theme
5bring downpastSun not said heremany soldiersfrom the great God; down propertyvn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent soldier=Theme from god=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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