Gleanings from Chinese folklore, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics, sentence 130
A terrible battle was fought in the air between the soldiers of the demons and the Heavenly band.
What happens: fight · To what, where: terrible battle, air
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: 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 battle | det |
| 2 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 battle | amod |
| 3 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fought | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 fought | aux:pass |
| 5 | fought | fight | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 air | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 air | det |
| 8 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fought | obl |
| 9 | between | between | ADP | _ | 11 soldiers | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 soldiers | det |
| 11 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 fought | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 demons | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 demons | det |
| 14 | demons | demon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 soldiers | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 band | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 band | det |
| 17 | Heavenly | heavenly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 band | amod |
| 18 | band | band | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 demons | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fight | past · passive | a terrible battle | the air | between the soldiers of the demons and the Heavenly band | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Agent |
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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