Gleanings from Chinese folklore, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics, sentence 49
All this time the four strange companions were living in great comfort with the rich man of the house, who gave them many rich presents and much food.
Who acts: four strange companions, house · What happens: live, give · To what, where: great comfort, many rich presents, companions
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 (four strange companions, house), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 time | det:predet |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 living | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 companions | det |
| 5 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 companions | nummod |
| 6 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 companions | amod |
| 7 | companions | companion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 living | nsubj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 living | aux |
| 9 | living | live | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 comfort | case |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 comfort | amod |
| 12 | comfort | comfort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 living | obl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 man | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 man | det |
| 15 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 man | amod |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 living | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 house | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 house | det |
| 19 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 man | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 gave | punct |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 gave | nsubj |
| 22 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 house | acl:relcl |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 gave | iobj |
| 24 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 presents | amod |
| 25 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 presents | amod |
| 26 | presents | present | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 gave | obj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 food | cc |
| 28 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 food | amod |
| 29 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 presents | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 living | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past · progressive | the four strange companions | great comfort | time | with the rich man of the house | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in comfort=Location | ||
| 2 | give | past | the house | many rich presents and much food | companions = companion | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient present=Theme |
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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