Gleanings from Chinese folklore, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics, sentence 17
He asked the errand of the strange company, and after hearing the story, said he also would go and T’ang Sung might ride him.
Who acts: monk, T’ang · What happens: ask, hear, say, go, ride · To what, where: errand, story, monk · 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, T’ang), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 asked | nsubj |
| 2 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 errand | det |
| 4 | errand | errand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 asked | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 company | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 company | det |
| 7 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 company | amod |
| 8 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 errand | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 said | cc |
| 11 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 12 hearing | mark |
| 12 | hearing | hear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 said | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 story | det |
| 14 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hearing | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 hearing | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 asked | parataxis |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 go | nsubj |
| 18 | also | also | ADV | _ | 20 go | advmod |
| 19 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 go | aux |
| 20 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 said | ccomp |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 ride | cc |
| 22 | T’ang | T'ang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 ride | nsubj |
| 23 | Sung | Sung | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 T’ang | flat |
| 24 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 ride | aux |
| 25 | ride | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 go | conj |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 ride | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | monk | the errand of the strange company | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent errand=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | hear | gerund | the story | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | go | would | monk | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | ride | might | T’ang | monk | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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