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Gleanings from Chinese folklore, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics, sentence 21

He gave a great jump and saw they were not far from a village; he heard a great noise which frightened him; he gave another jump and saw the village was on the bank of a great river eight hundred yards wide.

Who acts: monkey, demons, great noise, village · What happens: give, see, not be, hear, frighten, be · To what, where: great jump, village, great noise, monkey, jump, bank · 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 (monkey, demons, great noise, village), 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

nsubjdetamodobjccconjnsubjcopadvmodadvmodcasedetoblpunctnsubjconjdetamodobjnsubjacl:relclobjpunctnsubjparataxisdetobjccconjdetnsubjcopcasedetccompcasedetamodnmodcompoundnummodobl:unmarkedamodpunctrootHePRONgaveVERBaDETgreatADJjumpNOUNandCCONJsawVERBtheyPRONwereAUXnotPARTfarADVfromADPaDETvillageNOUN;PUNCThePRONheardVERBaDETgreatADJnoiseNOUNwhichPRONfrightenedVERBhimPRON;PUNCThePRONgaveVERBanotherDETjumpNOUNandCCONJsawVERBtheDETvillageNOUNwasAUXonADPtheDETbankNOUNofADPaDETgreatADJriverNOUNeightNUMhundredNUMyardsNOUNwideADJ.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 gavensubj
2gavegiveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art5 jumpdet
4greatgreatADJDegree=Pos5 jumpamod
5jumpjumpNOUNNumber=Sing2 gaveobj
6andandCCONJ_7 sawcc
7sawseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 gaveconj
8theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs11 farnsubj
9werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin11 farcop
10notnotPARTPolarity=Neg11 faradvmod
11farfarADVDegree=Pos7 sawadvmod
12fromfromADP_14 villagecase
13aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art14 villagedet
14villagevillageNOUNNumber=Sing11 farobl
15;;PUNCT_17 heardpunct
16hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs17 heardnsubj
17heardhearVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 gaveconj
18aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art20 noisedet
19greatgreatADJDegree=Pos20 noiseamod
20noisenoiseNOUNNumber=Sing17 heardobj
21whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel22 frightenednsubj
22frightenedfrightenVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin20 noiseacl:relcl
23himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs22 frightenedobj
24;;PUNCT_26 gavepunct
25hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs26 gavensubj
26gavegiveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 gaveparataxis
27anotheranotherDETPronType=Ind28 jumpdet
28jumpjumpNOUNNumber=Sing26 gaveobj
29andandCCONJ_30 sawcc
30sawseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin26 gaveconj
31thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art32 villagedet
32villagevillageNOUNNumber=Sing36 banknsubj
33wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin36 bankcop
34ononADP_36 bankcase
35thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art36 bankdet
36bankbankNOUNNumber=Sing30 sawccomp
37ofofADP_40 rivercase
38aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art40 riverdet
39greatgreatADJDegree=Pos40 riveramod
40riverriverNOUNNumber=Sing36 banknmod
41eighteightNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card42 hundredcompound
42hundredhundredNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card43 yardsnummod
43yardsyardNOUNNumber=Plur44 wideobl:unmarked
44widewideADJDegree=Pos40 riveramod
45..PUNCT_2 gavepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1givepastmonkeya great jumpvn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jump=Theme
2seepastmonkey not said herevn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3not ispastdemons = demona villagefar propertytree rules
4hearpastmonkeya great noisevn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer noise=Stimulus
5frightenpasta great noisemonkeyvn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer
6givepastmonkeyanother jumpvn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jump=Theme
7seepastmonkey not said herevn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
8ispastthe villagethe bankof a great rivertree rules

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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