Gleanings from Chinese folklore, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics, sentence 25
We are from the Emperor, and going to India to get the sacred books of the great Buddha.
Who acts: We · What happens: be, go, get · To what, where: India, sacred books
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 (We), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 Emperor | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 Emperor | cop |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 Emperor | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Emperor | det |
| 5 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 going | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 going | cc |
| 8 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 Emperor | conj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 India | case |
| 10 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 going | obl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 get | mark |
| 12 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 going | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 books | det |
| 14 | sacred | sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 books | amod |
| 15 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 get | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Buddha | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Buddha | det |
| 18 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 Buddha | amod |
| 19 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 books | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 Emperor | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | We | from the Emperor | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | gerund | We not said here | India | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to india=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | get | to-infinitive | We not said here | the sacred books of the great Buddha | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer book=Stimulus |
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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