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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

advmodnsubjflatobjxcompdet:predetdetamodobjpunctccadvmodcasedetoblcopmarkadvclobjnsubjparataxisdetobjccconjdetobjpunctccconjcaseoblcasedetnmodpunctrootThenADVSunPROPNHouPROPNsawVERBhimPRONlassoVERBallDETtheDETHeavenlyADJSoldiersPROPN,PUNCTandCCONJjustADVasADPtheDETstringNOUNwasAUXtoPARTenvelopeVERBhimPRONhePRONgaveVERBaDETjumpNOUNandCCONJturnedVERBaDETsomersaultNOUN—PUNCTandCCONJlandedVERBonADPtopNOUNofADPaDETmountainNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThenthenADVPronType=Dem4 sawadvmod
2SunSunPROPNNumber=Sing4 sawnsubj
3HouHouPROPNNumber=Sing2 Sunflat
4sawseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
5himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs4 sawobj
6lassolassoVERBVerbForm=Inf4 sawxcomp
7allallDETPronType=Tot10 Soldiersdet:predet
8thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art10 Soldiersdet
9HeavenlyheavenlyADJDegree=Pos10 Soldiersamod
10SoldiersSoldierPROPNNumber=Plur6 lassoobj
11,,PUNCT_22 gavepunct
12andandCCONJ_22 gavecc
13justjustADV_16 stringadvmod
14asasADP_16 stringcase
15thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art16 stringdet
16stringstringNOUNNumber=Sing22 gaveobl
17wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin22 gavecop
18totoPART_19 envelopemark
19envelopeenvelopeVERBVerbForm=Inf22 gaveadvcl
20himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs19 envelopeobj
21hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs22 gavensubj
22gavegiveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 sawparataxis
23aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art24 jumpdet
24jumpjumpNOUNNumber=Sing22 gaveobj
25andandCCONJ_26 turnedcc
26turnedturnVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin22 gaveconj
27aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art28 somersaultdet
28somersaultsomersaultNOUNNumber=Sing26 turnedobj
29—-PUNCT_31 landedpunct
30andandCCONJ_31 landedcc
31landedlandVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass4 sawconj
32ononADP_33 topcase
33toptopNOUNNumber=Sing31 landedobl
34ofofADP_36 mountaincase
35aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art36 mountaindet
36mountainmountainNOUNNumber=Sing33 topnmod
37..PUNCT_4 sawpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1seepastSunhorsethentree rules
2lassoinfinitivehorse not said hereall Heavenly Soldiersvn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soldier=Patient
3envelopeto-infinitiveSun not said hereSuntree rules
4ispastSunas the string; a jump obj; give propertytree rules
5turnpastSun not said herea somersaultvn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent somersault=Theme
6landparticipleSun not said heretop of a mountainvn 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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