Gleanings from Chinese folklore, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics, sentence 45
With that he seized the girl, who immediately struck him, and then, with the help of the boy, fought a terrible battle and injured him so that he fled, leaving two great fins on the floor.
Who acts: door, girl · What happens: seize, strike, fight, injure, flee, leave · To what, where: girl, door, terrible battle, two great fins, floor, boy
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 (door, girl), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 2 that | case |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 seized | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 seized | nsubj |
| 4 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 girl | det |
| 6 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seized | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 struck | punct |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 struck | nsubj |
| 9 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 10 struck | advmod |
| 10 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 girl | acl:relcl |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 struck | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 fought | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 fought | cc |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 fought | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 then | punct |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 help | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 help | det |
| 18 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 fought | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 boy | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 boy | det |
| 21 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 help | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 help | punct |
| 23 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 seized | conj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 battle | det |
| 25 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 battle | amod |
| 26 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 fought | obj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 injured | cc |
| 28 | injured | injure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 seized | conj |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 injured | obj |
| 30 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 33 fled | mark |
| 31 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 so | fixed |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 fled | nsubj |
| 33 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 injured | advcl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 leaving | punct |
| 35 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 33 fled | advcl |
| 36 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 38 fins | nummod |
| 37 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 fins | amod |
| 38 | fins | fin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 leaving | obj |
| 39 | on | on | ADP | _ | 41 floor | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 floor | det |
| 41 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 leaving | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | past | door | the girl | with that | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Theme | |||
| 2 | strike | past | the girl | door | immediately property | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Instrument | |||
| 3 | fight | past | door not said here | a terrible battle | then | with the help of the boy | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battle=Co-Agent | ||
| 4 | injure | past | door not said here | door | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | flee | past | door | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | leave | gerund | door not said here | two great fins | the floor | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent fin=Theme on floor=Location | |||
| 7 | help | the boy | nom help «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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