Gleanings from Chinese folklore, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics, sentence 148
After the battle, worn and weary, Sun Hou liberated the soldiers and his companions, and then looking about him saw there was no mountain, no temple, but a fine restful road with eating-houses and rest-houses on the way.
Who acts: Sun, mountain · What happens: liberate, look, see, be · To what, where: soldiers, fine restful road · Speech: someone speaks here
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, mountain), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 battle | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 battle | det |
| 3 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 worn | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 battle | punct |
| 5 | worn | worn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 weary | cc |
| 7 | weary | weary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 worn | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 liberated | punct |
| 9 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 liberated | nsubj |
| 10 | Hou | Hou | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Sun | flat |
| 11 | liberated | liberate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 worn | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 soldiers | det |
| 13 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 liberated | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 companions | cc |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 companions | nmod:poss |
| 16 | companions | companion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 soldiers | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 saw | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 saw | cc |
| 19 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 looking | advmod |
| 20 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 saw | advcl |
| 21 | about | about | ADP | _ | 22 him | case |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 looking | obl |
| 23 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 worn | conj |
| 24 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 25 was | expl |
| 25 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 saw | ccomp |
| 26 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 27 mountain | det |
| 27 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 was | nsubj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 temple | punct |
| 29 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 30 temple | det |
| 30 | temple | temple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 mountain | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 road | punct |
| 32 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 36 road | cc |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 road | det |
| 34 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 road | amod |
| 35 | restful | restful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 road | amod |
| 36 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 saw | obl |
| 37 | with | with | ADP | _ | 40 houses | case |
| 38 | eating | eating | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 houses | compound |
| 39 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 38 eating | punct |
| 40 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 road | nmod |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 houses | cc |
| 42 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 houses | compound |
| 43 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 42 rest | punct |
| 44 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 houses | conj |
| 45 | on | on | ADP | _ | 47 way | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 way | det |
| 47 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 houses | nmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 worn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | liberate | past | Sun | the soldiers and Sun's companions | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soldier=Theme | ||||
| 2 | look | gerund | then | about Sun | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | past | a fine restful road with eating houses and rest houses on the way | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | be | past | no mountain and no temple | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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