Gleanings from Chinese folklore, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics, sentence 139
You go to the demons who live in these caves in the mountains, and find out what kind of a demon this is.”
Who acts: You, demons, this · What happens: go, live, find out, be · To what, where: caves, kind
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, demons, this), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 go | nsubj |
| 2 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 demons | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 demons | det |
| 5 | demons | demon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 go | obl |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 live | nsubj |
| 7 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 demons | acl:relcl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 caves | case |
| 9 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 10 caves | det |
| 10 | caves | cave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 live | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 mountains | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 mountains | det |
| 13 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 live | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 find | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 find | cc |
| 16 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 go | conj |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 find | compound:prt |
| 18 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 19 kind | det |
| 19 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 find | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 demon | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 demon | det |
| 22 | demon | demon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 kind | nmod |
| 23 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 is | nsubj |
| 24 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 kind | acl:relcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 go | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | You | to the demons | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to demon=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | live | present | the demons | this caves | in the mountains | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cave=Location | |||
| 3 | find out | infinitive | You not said here | what kind of a demon | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Topic | ||||
| 4 | be | present | this | what kind of a demon not said here | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot kind=Theme |
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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