Gleanings from Chinese folklore, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics, sentence 143
He is most fond of melons, and we will plant some melons and test him.
Who acts: Sun, we · What happens: be, plant, test · To what, where: melons, Sun
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, we), 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 | 4 fond | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 fond | cop |
| 3 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 fond | amod |
| 4 | fond | fond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 melons | case |
| 6 | melons | melon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fond | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 plant | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 plant | cc |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 plant | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 plant | aux |
| 11 | plant | plant | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 fond | parataxis |
| 12 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 melons | det |
| 13 | melons | melon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 plant | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 test | cc |
| 15 | test | test | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 plant | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 test | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fond | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Sun | of melons; fond property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | plant | future | we | some melons | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent melon=Patient | ||||
| 3 | test | infinitive | we not said here | Sun | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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