Gleanings from Chinese folklore, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics, sentence 127
When the great demon saw them he said, “I am not afraid of you, even if you are from Heaven.
Who acts: great demon, Sun, you · What happens: see, say, not be, be · To what, where: Soldiers, Heaven · 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 (great demon, Sun, you), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 saw | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 demon | det |
| 3 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 demon | amod |
| 4 | demon | demon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | advcl |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 saw | obj |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 afraid | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 afraid | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 afraid | nsubj |
| 12 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 afraid | cop |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 afraid | advmod |
| 14 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 said | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 you | case |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 afraid | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Heaven | punct |
| 18 | even | even | ADV | _ | 23 Heaven | advmod |
| 19 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 23 Heaven | mark |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 Heaven | nsubj |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 Heaven | cop |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 Heaven | case |
| 23 | Heaven | Heaven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 afraid | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the great demon | Soldiers = soldier | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Sun | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not is in a quote | present | Sun | of you; afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | Heaven | tree rules |
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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