Gleanings from Chinese folklore, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics, sentence 132
Then Sun Hou saw him lasso all the Heavenly Soldiers, and just as the string was to envelope him he gave a jump and turned a somersault—and landed on top of a mountain.
Who acts: Sun, horse · What happens: see, lasso, envelope, be, turn, land · To what, where: horse, Heavenly Soldiers, Sun, somersault, top
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, horse), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 saw | advmod |
| 2 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | Hou | Hou | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Sun | flat |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | obj |
| 6 | lasso | lasso | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 saw | xcomp |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 Soldiers | det:predet |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Soldiers | det |
| 9 | Heavenly | heavenly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Soldiers | amod |
| 10 | Soldiers | Soldier | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 lasso | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 gave | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 gave | cc |
| 13 | just | just | ADV | _ | 16 string | advmod |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 string | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 string | det |
| 16 | string | string | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 gave | obl |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 gave | cop |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 envelope | mark |
| 19 | envelope | envelope | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 gave | advcl |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 envelope | obj |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 gave | nsubj |
| 22 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | parataxis |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 jump | det |
| 24 | jump | jump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 gave | obj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 turned | cc |
| 26 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 gave | conj |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 somersault | det |
| 28 | somersault | somersault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 turned | obj |
| 29 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 landed | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 landed | cc |
| 31 | landed | land | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 saw | conj |
| 32 | on | on | ADP | _ | 33 top | case |
| 33 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 landed | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 mountain | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 mountain | det |
| 36 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 top | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Sun | horse | then | tree rules | |||
| 2 | lasso | infinitive | horse not said here | all Heavenly Soldiers | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soldier=Patient | ||||
| 3 | envelope | to-infinitive | Sun not said here | Sun | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | past | Sun | as the string; a jump obj; give property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | turn | past | Sun not said here | a somersault | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent somersault=Theme | ||||
| 6 | land | participle | Sun not said here | top of a mountain | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on top=Destination |
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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