Gleanings from Chinese folklore, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics, sentence 147
In his great distress the demon pleaded so hard that Sun Hou came out by the demon’s ear and together they fought all over the melon patch in the moonlight.
Who acts: demon, Sun, demons · What happens: plead, come out, fight, distress · To what, where: great distress, melon patch, moonlight
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 (demon, Sun, demons), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 distress | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 distress | nmod:poss |
| 3 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 distress | amod |
| 4 | distress | distress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pleaded | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 demon | det |
| 6 | demon | demon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pleaded | nsubj |
| 7 | pleaded | plead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 hard | advmod |
| 9 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 pleaded | xcomp |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 came | mark |
| 11 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 came | nsubj |
| 12 | Hou | Hou | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Sun | flat |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 hard | advcl |
| 14 | out | out | ADV | _ | 13 came | advmod |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 ear | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 demon | det |
| 17 | demon | demon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 ear | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 17 demon | case |
| 19 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 came | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 fought | cc |
| 21 | together | together | ADV | _ | 23 fought | advmod |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 fought | nsubj |
| 23 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 came | conj |
| 24 | all | all | ADV | _ | 28 patch | advmod |
| 25 | over | over | ADP | _ | 28 patch | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 patch | det |
| 27 | melon | melon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 patch | compound |
| 28 | patch | patch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 fought | obj |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 moonlight | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 moonlight | det |
| 31 | moonlight | moonlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 patch | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 pleaded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | plead speech: request | past | the demon | Sun's great distress | hard property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | come out | past | Sun | by the demon's ear; out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | fight | past | demons = demon | the melon patch | the moonlight | together property | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent patch=Co-Agent | ||
| 4 | distress | Sun | nom distress «feeling 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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