Gleanings from Chinese folklore, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics, sentence 46
The river-demon sought out the king of the demons and told him the story.
Who acts: river demon · What happens: seek out, tell · To what, where: king, story · 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 (river demon), 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 | 4 demon | det |
| 2 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 demon | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 river | punct |
| 4 | demon | demon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sought | nsubj |
| 5 | sought | seek | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 sought | compound:prt |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 king | det |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sought | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 demons | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 demons | det |
| 11 | demons | demon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 king | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 told | cc |
| 13 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sought | conj |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 told | iobj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 story | det |
| 16 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 told | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seek out | participle | the river demon | the king of the demons | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | the river demon not said here | the story | king | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient story=Topic |
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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