Gleanings from Chinese folklore, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics, sentence 22
The monkey returned and got his companions and led them to the home of the rich man of the village.
Who acts: monkey · What happens: return, get, lead · To what, where: companions, home
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), 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 monkey | det |
| 2 | monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 returned | nsubj |
| 3 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 got | cc |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 returned | conj |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 companions | nmod:poss |
| 7 | companions | companion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 got | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 led | cc |
| 9 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 returned | conj |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 led | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 home | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 home | det |
| 13 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 led | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 man | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 man | det |
| 16 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 man | amod |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 home | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 village | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 village | det |
| 20 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 man | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | the monkey | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | get | past | the monkey not said here | monkey's companions | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer companion=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | lead | past | the monkey not said here | companions = companion | the home of the rich man of the village | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to home=Destination |
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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