Gleanings from Chinese folklore, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics, sentence 131
The great demon threw up his charmed lasso and brought down the bracelet, and again, and brought down the chain.
Who acts: great demon · What happens: throw up, charm, bring down · To what, where: charmed lasso, bracelet, 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 (great demon), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 demon | det |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 demon | amod |
| 3 | demon | demon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 threw | nsubj |
| 4 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 threw | compound:prt |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 lasso | nmod:poss |
| 7 | charmed | charm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 lasso | amod |
| 8 | lasso | lasso | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 threw | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 brought | cc |
| 10 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 threw | conj |
| 11 | down | down | ADP | _ | 10 brought | compound:prt |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bracelet | det |
| 13 | bracelet | bracelet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 brought | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 again | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 again | cc |
| 16 | again | again | ADV | _ | 10 brought | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 brought | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 brought | cc |
| 19 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 threw | conj |
| 20 | down | down | ADP | _ | 19 brought | compound:prt |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 chain | det |
| 22 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 brought | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw up | past | the great demon | Sun's charmed lasso | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent lasso=Theme | ||||
| 2 | charm | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | bring down | past | the great demon not said here | the bracelet | again | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent bracelet=Theme | |||
| 4 | bring down | past | the great demon not said here | the chain | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent chain=Theme |
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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