Gleanings from Chinese folklore, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics, sentence 18
The foolish priest carried the baggage, the pig carried the gun, and the monkey was sent on ahead to make all the arrangements.
Who acts: foolish priest, pig · What happens: carry, send, make · To what, where: baggage, gun, monkey, arrangements
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 (foolish priest, 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 | 3 priest | det |
| 2 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 priest | amod |
| 3 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 carried | nsubj |
| 4 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 baggage | det |
| 6 | baggage | baggage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 carried | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 carried | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 pig | det |
| 9 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 carried | nsubj |
| 10 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 carried | parataxis |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 gun | det |
| 12 | gun | gun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 carried | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sent | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 sent | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 monkey | det |
| 16 | monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 sent | aux:pass |
| 18 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 carried | conj |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 ahead | case |
| 20 | ahead | ahead | ADV | _ | 18 sent | obl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 make | mark |
| 22 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 sent | advcl |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 arrangements | det:predet |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 arrangements | det |
| 25 | arrangements | arrangement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 make | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past | the foolish priest | the baggage | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baggage=Theme | ||||
| 2 | carry | past | the pig | the gun | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gun=Theme | ||||
| 3 | send | past · passive | the monkey | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | make | to-infinitive | all arrangements | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset arrangement=Product |
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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