Gleanings from Chinese folklore, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics, sentence 134

Along came a man who asked why he was crying and he said, “I promised to take a monk to India and to protect him.

Who acts: man · What happens: come, ask, cry, say, promise, take · To what, where: monk, India · 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 (man), 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	Along	along	ADV	_	2 came	advmod
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 man	det
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	nsubj
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 asked	nsubj
6	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 man	acl:relcl
7	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	10 crying	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 crying	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 crying	aux
10	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 asked	ccomp
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 said	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 said	nsubj
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 promised	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 promised	punct
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 promised	nsubj
17	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 said	ccomp
18	to	to	PART	_	19 take	mark
19	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 promised	xcomp
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 monk	det
21	monk	monk	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 take	obj
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 India	case
23	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 take	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 protect	cc
25	to	to	PART	_	26 protect	mark
26	protect	protect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 take	conj
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 protect	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	come	past	a man			along property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	past	a man				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	cry speech: express	past · progressive	man				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert	past	man				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	promise speech: promise in a quote	past	man				vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	take not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	man not said here	a monk	India		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent monk=Theme to india=Destination
7	protect in a quote	to-infinitive	man not said here		monk		vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary

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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Gleanings from Chinese folklore, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics, sentence 134