Gleanings from Chinese folklore, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics, sentence 13
“What can you do to help?” asked T’ang Sung.
Who acts: you, T’ang Sung · What happens: do, help, ask · 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 (you, T’ang Sung), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 do | obj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 do | nsubj |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 asked | ccomp |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 help | mark |
| 7 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 do | advcl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | T’ang | T'ang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Sung | compound |
| 12 | Sung | Sung | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 asked | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | can | you | What obj | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | help in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | T’ang Sung | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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