Gleanings from Chinese folklore, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics, sentence 138
“Do you not remember that a great iron beam can be rubbed to a fine needle if you but take time?
Who acts: you · What happens: not remember, rub, take · To what, where: great iron beam, fine needle · 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 (you), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 remember | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 remember | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 remember | nsubj |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 remember | advmod |
| 5 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 rubbed | mark |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 beam | det |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 beam | amod |
| 9 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 beam | compound |
| 10 | beam | beam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rubbed | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 rubbed | aux |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 rubbed | aux:pass |
| 13 | rubbed | rub | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 remember | ccomp |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 needle | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 needle | det |
| 16 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 needle | amod |
| 17 | needle | needle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rubbed | obl |
| 18 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 you | mark |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 rubbed | obl |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 take | cc |
| 21 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 remember | conj |
| 22 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 take | obj |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 remember | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not remember in a quote | present · do-support | you | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | rub in a quote | can · passive | a great iron beam | a fine needle | you obl | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Patient to needle=Recipient | |||
| 3 | take in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | time | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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