Gleanings from Chinese folklore, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics, sentence 144
I will be the gardener and you go and call him out.”
Who acts: I, you · What happens: be, go, call out · To what, where: gardener, 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 (I, 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 gardener | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 gardener | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 gardener | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 gardener | det |
| 5 | gardener | gardener | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 go | cc |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 go | nsubj |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 gardener | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 call | cc |
| 10 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 go | conj |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 call | obj |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 call | compound:prt |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 go | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 gardener | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | future | I | the gardener | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | present | you | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | call out speech: assert | present | you not said here | Sun | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
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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