Gleanings from Chinese folklore, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics, sentence 4
The monkey asked the priest where he was going, and on being told, decided that he would go along with the good priest!
Who acts: monkey · What happens: ask, go, tell, decide, go along · To what, where: priest · 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), 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 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 priest | det |
| 5 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 asked | obj |
| 6 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 9 going | advmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 going | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 going | aux |
| 9 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 priest | acl:relcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 decided | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 decided | cc |
| 12 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 14 told | mark |
| 13 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 told | aux:pass |
| 14 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 decided | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 told | punct |
| 16 | decided | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 asked | conj |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 go | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 go | nsubj |
| 19 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 go | aux |
| 20 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 decided | ccomp |
| 21 | along | along | ADV | _ | 20 go | advmod |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 priest | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 priest | det |
| 24 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 priest | amod |
| 25 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 go | obl |
| 26 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | the monkey | the priest | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent priest=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | go | past · progressive | monkey | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | gerund · passive | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V» | ||||||
| 4 | decide | past | the monkey not said here | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | go along | would | monkey | with the good priest; along property | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with priest=Beneficiary |
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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