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Gleanings from Chinese folklore, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics, sentence 50

On the fourth day they started on, and when they got to the middle of the river the ice broke and all went into the water except the monkey, who gave a great jump and landed on the top of a high mountain.

Who acts: companions, ice, monkey · What happens: start on, get, break, go, give, land · To what, where: river, water, great jump, top

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 (companions, ice, 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

casedetamodoblnsubjadvmodpunctccadvmodnsubjconjcasedetoblcasedetnmoddetnsubjacl:relclccadvmodconjcasedetoblcasedetoblpunctnsubjacl:relcldetamodobjccconjcasedetoblcasedetamodnmodpunctrootOnADPtheDETfourthADJdayNOUNtheyPRONstartedVERBonADV,PUNCTandCCONJwhenADVtheyPRONgotVERBtoADPtheDETmiddleNOUNofADPtheDETriverNOUNtheDETiceNOUNbrokeVERBandCCONJallDETwentVERBintoADPtheDETwaterNOUNexceptADPtheDETmonkeyNOUN,PUNCTwhoPRONgaveVERBaDETgreatADJjumpNOUNandCCONJlandedVERBonADPtheDETtopNOUNofADPaDEThighADJmountainNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1OnonADP_4 daycase
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art4 daydet
3fourthfourthADJDegree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord4 dayamod
4daydayNOUNNumber=Sing6 startedobl
5theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs6 startednsubj
6startedstartVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
7ononADV_6 startedadvmod
8,,PUNCT_12 gotpunct
9andandCCONJ_12 gotcc
10whenwhenADVPronType=Int12 gotadvmod
11theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs12 gotnsubj
12gotgetVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 startedconj
13totoADP_15 middlecase
14thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art15 middledet
15middlemiddleNOUNNumber=Sing12 gotobl
16ofofADP_18 rivercase
17thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art18 riverdet
18riverriverNOUNNumber=Sing15 middlenmod
19thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art20 icedet
20iceiceNOUNNumber=Sing21 brokensubj
21brokebreakVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin18 riveracl:relcl
22andandCCONJ_24 wentcc
23allallDETPronType=Tot24 wentadvmod
24wentgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 startedconj
25intointoADP_27 watercase
26thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art27 waterdet
27waterwaterNOUNNumber=Sing24 wentobl
28exceptexceptADP_30 monkeycase
29thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art30 monkeydet
30monkeymonkeyNOUNNumber=Sing24 wentobl
31,,PUNCT_33 gavepunct
32whowhoPRONPronType=Rel33 gavensubj
33gavegiveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin30 monkeyacl:relcl
34aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art36 jumpdet
35greatgreatADJDegree=Pos36 jumpamod
36jumpjumpNOUNNumber=Sing33 gaveobj
37andandCCONJ_38 landedcc
38landedlandVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass36 jumpconj
39ononADP_41 topcase
40thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art41 topdet
41toptopNOUNNumber=Sing38 landedobl
42ofofADP_45 mountaincase
43aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art45 mountaindet
44highhighADJDegree=Pos45 mountainamod
45mountainmountainNOUNNumber=Sing41 topnmod
46..PUNCT_6 startedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1start onpastcompanions = companiondayvn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2getpastcompanions = companionto the middle of the river resultvn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to middle=Result
3breakpastthe icethe river not said herevn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer river=Patient
4gopastcompanions = companion not said herethe waterexcept the monkeyvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into water=Initial_Location
5givepastthe monkeya great jumpvn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jump=Theme
6landparticiplethe monkey not said herethe top of a high mountainvn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on top=Destination

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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