Gleanings from Chinese folklore, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics, sentence 141
He had one time been his servant but had stolen his treasure and run away.
Who acts: Sun, one time · What happens: have, be, steal, run away, treasure · To what, where: servant, treasure
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, one time), 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 | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 time | nummod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 servant | nsubj |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 servant | cop |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 servant | nmod:poss |
| 7 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | ccomp |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 stolen | cc |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 stolen | aux |
| 10 | stolen | steal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 had | conj |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 treasure | nmod:poss |
| 12 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stolen | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 run | cc |
| 14 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 10 stolen | conj |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 14 run | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Sun | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | participle | one time | Sun's servant | Sun nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 3 | steal | past · perfect | Sun not said here | Sun's treasure | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location treasure=Theme | ||||
| 4 | run away | present | Sun not said here | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | treasure | Sun | nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=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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