Gleanings from Chinese folklore, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics, sentence 2
Alone he set out on his journey to the Yellow River where the caravans to India were wont to form.
Who acts: T’ang, caravans · What happens: set out, be, form, journey · To what, where: journey
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 (T’ang, caravans), 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 | Alone | alone | ADV | _ | 3 set | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 set | nsubj |
| 3 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 set | compound:prt |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 journey | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 journey | nmod:poss |
| 7 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 set | obl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 River | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 River | det |
| 10 | Yellow | Yellow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 River | compound |
| 11 | River | River | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 journey | nmod |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 wont | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 caravans | det |
| 14 | caravans | caravan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 wont | nsubj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 India | case |
| 16 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 caravans | nmod |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 wont | cop |
| 18 | wont | wont | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 River | amod |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 form | mark |
| 20 | form | form | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 wont | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set out | past | T’ang = t'ang | T’ang's journey to the Yellow River | alone property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | past | the caravans to India | wont property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | form | to-infinitive | the caravans to India not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | journey | T’ang = t'ang | to the Yellow River | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent to=obl |
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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