Gleanings from Chinese folklore, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics, sentence 129
Among the Heavenly Soldiers was one very great one, and he wore a wheel of iron on one foot and a wheel of wind on the other; on his wrist was a beautiful bracelet and he wore a Heavenly chain.
Who acts: Sun · What happens: be, wear · To what, where: one great one, wheel, one foot, beautiful bracelet, wrist, Heavenly chain
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 | Among | among | ADP | _ | 4 Soldiers | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Soldiers | det |
| 3 | Heavenly | heavenly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Soldiers | amod |
| 4 | Soldiers | Soldier | PROPN | Number=Plur | 9 one | obl |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 one | cop |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 one | nummod |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 great | advmod |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 one | amod |
| 9 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 wore | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 wore | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 wore | nsubj |
| 13 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 one | acl:relcl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 wheel | det |
| 15 | wheel | wheel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wore | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 iron | case |
| 17 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wheel | nmod |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 foot | case |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 foot | nummod |
| 20 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wore | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 wheel | cc |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 wheel | det |
| 23 | wheel | wheel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 foot | conj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 wind | case |
| 25 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 wheel | nmod |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 other | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 other | det |
| 28 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 wore | obl |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 bracelet | punct |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 wrist | case |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 wrist | nmod:poss |
| 32 | wrist | wrist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 bracelet | obl |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 bracelet | cop |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 bracelet | det |
| 35 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 bracelet | amod |
| 36 | bracelet | bracelet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 one | conj |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 wore | cc |
| 38 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 wore | nsubj |
| 39 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 bracelet | conj |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 chain | det |
| 41 | Heavenly | heavenly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 chain | amod |
| 42 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 wore | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | one great one and a beautiful bracelet | among the Heavenly Soldiers | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wear | past | Sun | a wheel of iron | one foot and a wheel of wind | on the other | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent wheel=Source | ||
| 3 | is a | past | a beautiful bracelet | Sun's wrist | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | wear | past | Sun | a Heavenly chain | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent chain=Source |
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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