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Gleanings from Chinese folklore, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics, sentence 145

Then Sun Hou went out and reviled the demon and he came out in great anger; Sun Hou changed into a fine melon and the demon, seeing him, ate him.

Who acts: Sun · What happens: go out, revile, come out, change, see, eat · To what, where: demon, great anger, fine melon, 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), 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

advmodnsubjflatadvmodccconjdetobjccnsubjconjadvmodcaseamodoblpunctnsubjflatparataxiscasedetamodoblccdetconjpunctadvclobjpunctconjobjpunctrootThenADVSunPROPNHouPROPNwentVERBoutADVandCCONJreviledVERBtheDETdemonNOUNandCCONJhePRONcameVERBoutADVinADPgreatADJangerNOUN;PUNCTSunPROPNHouPROPNchangedVERBintoADPaDETfineADJmelonNOUNandCCONJtheDETdemonNOUN,PUNCTseeingVERBhimPRON,PUNCTateVERBhimPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThenthenADVPronType=Dem4 wentadvmod
2SunSunPROPNNumber=Sing4 wentnsubj
3HouHouPROPNNumber=Sing2 Sunflat
4wentgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
5outoutADV_4 wentadvmod
6andandCCONJ_7 reviledcc
7reviledrevileVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 wentconj
8thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art9 demondet
9demondemonNOUNNumber=Sing7 reviledobj
10andandCCONJ_12 camecc
11hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs12 camensubj
12camecomeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 wentconj
13outoutADV_12 cameadvmod
14ininADP_16 angercase
15greatgreatADJDegree=Pos16 angeramod
16angerangerNOUNNumber=Sing12 cameobl
17;;PUNCT_20 changedpunct
18SunSunPROPNNumber=Sing20 changednsubj
19HouHouPROPNNumber=Sing18 Sunflat
20changedchangeVERBMood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 wentparataxis
21intointoADP_24 meloncase
22aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art24 melondet
23finefineADJDegree=Pos24 melonamod
24melonmelonNOUNNumber=Sing20 changedobl
25andandCCONJ_27 demoncc
26thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art27 demondet
27demondemonNOUNNumber=Sing24 melonconj
28,,PUNCT_29 seeingpunct
29seeingseeVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part20 changedadvcl
30himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs29 seeingobj
31,,PUNCT_32 atepunct
32ateeatVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin20 changedconj
33himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs32 ateobj
34..PUNCT_4 wentpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1go outpastSunthenout propertyvn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2revilepastSun not said herethe demonvn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent demon=Theme
3come outpastSungreat angerout propertyvn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
4changepastSuninto a fine melon and the demon resultvn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into melon=Result
5seegerundSun not said hereSunvn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
6eatpastSun not said hereSunvn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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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