Gleanings from Chinese folklore, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics, sentence 135
He and his companions are bound and in a cave.
What happens: bind · To what, where: man
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 bound | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 bound | cc |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 companions | nmod:poss |
| 4 | companions | companion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 bound | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 bound | aux:pass |
| 6 | bound | bind | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 cave | cc |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 cave | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 cave | det |
| 10 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bound | conj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 bound | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bind | present · passive | man | man's companions nsubj:pass; a cave conj | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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