Gleanings from Chinese folklore, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics, sentence 39
They carried the supposed children to the temple on the river bank.
Who acts: drums · What happens: carry, suppose · To what, where: supposed children, temple
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 (drums), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 carried | nsubj |
| 2 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 children | det |
| 4 | supposed | suppose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 children | amod |
| 5 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 carried | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 temple | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 temple | det |
| 8 | temple | temple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 carried | obl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 bank | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bank | det |
| 11 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bank | compound |
| 12 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 temple | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past | drums = drum | the supposed children | the temple on the river bank | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent child=Theme to temple=Destination | |||
| 2 | suppose | participle | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: 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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