Gleanings from Chinese folklore, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics, sentence 15
The monk considered the question, and as he did not like to be unkind to a pig said he could go.
Who acts: monk, pig · What happens: consider, not like, be, say, go · To what, where: question · 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 (monk, pig), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 monk | det |
| 2 | monk | monk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 considered | nsubj |
| 3 | considered | consider | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 question | det |
| 5 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 considered | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 like | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 like | cc |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 like | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 like | nsubj |
| 10 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 like | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 like | advmod |
| 12 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 considered | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 unkind | mark |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 unkind | cop |
| 15 | unkind | unkind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 like | xcomp |
| 16 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 19 said | mark |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 pig | det |
| 18 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 said | nsubj |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 unkind | advcl |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 go | nsubj |
| 21 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 go | aux |
| 22 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 said | ccomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 considered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consider | past | the monk | the question | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent question=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | not like | past · do-support | monk | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | is not said to happen | to-infinitive | monk not said here | unkind property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | a pig | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | go | could | pig | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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