Gleanings from Chinese folklore, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics, sentence 140
Sun Hou went to them all and at last found one who said he knew the demon of the Thunder temple.
Who acts: Sun · What happens: go, find, say, know · To what, where: demons, last, demon · 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 (Sun), 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 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 2 | Hou | Hou | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Sun | flat |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 them | case |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | obl |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 found | cc |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 last | case |
| 9 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 found | obl |
| 10 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 said | ccomp |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 found | ccomp |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 knew | nsubj |
| 15 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | ccomp |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 demon | det |
| 17 | demon | demon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 knew | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 temple | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 temple | det |
| 20 | Thunder | Thunder | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 temple | compound |
| 21 | temple | temple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 demon | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Sun | demons = demon | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to they=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | find | past | Sun not said here | last | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | one ccomp; who nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | know | past | Sun | the demon of the Thunder temple | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer demon=Stimulus |
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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