Gleanings from Chinese folklore, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics, sentence 37
After looking at them Sun Hou said to the pig, “You impersonate the girl and I will the boy;” the pig shook himself three times, and the father said, “Well done.”
Who acts: Sun, pig, father · What happens: look, say, impersonate, boy, shake, do · To what, where: pig, girl, Sun · 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 (Sun, pig, father), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 2 looking | mark |
| 2 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 said | advcl |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 them | case |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 looking | obl |
| 5 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 6 | Hou | Hou | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Sun | flat |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 pig | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 pig | det |
| 10 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 impersonate | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 impersonate | punct |
| 13 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 impersonate | nsubj |
| 14 | impersonate | impersonate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | parataxis |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 girl | det |
| 16 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 impersonate | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 boy | cc |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 boy | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 boy | aux |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 boy | det |
| 21 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 impersonate | conj |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 shook | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 ; | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 pig | det |
| 25 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 shook | nsubj |
| 26 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | conj |
| 27 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 26 shook | obj |
| 28 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 times | nummod |
| 29 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 shook | obl:unmarked |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 said | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 said | cc |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 father | det |
| 33 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 said | nsubj |
| 34 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 shook | parataxis |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 done | punct |
| 36 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 38 done | punct |
| 37 | Well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 38 done | advmod |
| 38 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 said | ccomp |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 shook | punct |
| 40 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 shook | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | gerund | Sun not said here | at children = child | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Sun | the pig | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to pig=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | impersonate in a quote | present | the pig = pig | the girl | vn patent-101 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Theme | ||||
| 4 | boy in a quote | future | Sun | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | shake | past | the pig | Sun | time | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent himself=Patient | |||
| 6 | say speech: assert | past | the father | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | do in a quote | participle | well property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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