Gleanings from Chinese folklore, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics, sentence 136
I got twenty-eight servants from the great God, they are also bound; and now all the Heavenly Soldiers have been defeated and are bound.”
Who acts: I, servants · What happens: get, be, defeat · To what, where: eight servants, Heavenly Soldiers
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 (I, servants), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 got | nsubj |
| 2 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 eight | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 twenty | punct |
| 5 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 servants | nummod |
| 6 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 got | obj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 God | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 God | det |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 God | amod |
| 10 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 got | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 bound | punct |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 bound | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 bound | cop |
| 14 | also | also | ADV | _ | 15 bound | advmod |
| 15 | bound | bound | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 God | conj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 defeated | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 defeated | cc |
| 18 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 all | advmod |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 defeated | det:predet |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Soldiers | det |
| 21 | Heavenly | heavenly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 Soldiers | amod |
| 22 | Soldiers | Soldier | PROPN | Number=Plur | 25 defeated | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 defeated | aux |
| 24 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 defeated | aux:pass |
| 25 | defeated | defeat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 got | parataxis |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 bound | cc |
| 27 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 bound | cop |
| 28 | bound | bound | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 defeated | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 got | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | I | eight servants | from the great God | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent servant=Theme from god=Source | |||
| 2 | is | present | servants = servant | bound property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | defeat | present · perfect · passive | the Heavenly Soldiers | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | is | present | bound property | tree rules |
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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