Gleanings from Chinese folklore, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics, sentence 41
Then when all was quiet Sun Hou said to the pig, “You take one side and I will the other and don’t be afraid.”
Who acts: quiet Sun Hou, pig · What happens: be, say, take, not be · To what, where: pig, one side · 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 (quiet Sun Hou, pig), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 said | advmod |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 said | advmod |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 Hou | det |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 quiet | cop |
| 5 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Hou | amod |
| 6 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Hou | compound |
| 7 | Hou | Hou | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 pig | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 pig | det |
| 11 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 take | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 take | punct |
| 14 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 take | nsubj |
| 15 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 side | nummod |
| 17 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 take | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 other | cc |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 other | nsubj |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 other | aux |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 other | det |
| 22 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 take | conj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 afraid | cc |
| 24 | do | do | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 afraid | aux |
| 25 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 afraid | advmod |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 afraid | cop |
| 27 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 take | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | quiet property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | all quiet Sun Hou | the pig | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to pig=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 3 | take in a quote | present | the pig = pig | one side | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent side=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not is in a quote | infinitive · do-support | the pig = pig not said here | afraid property | tree rules |
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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