Gleanings from Chinese folklore, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics, sentence 51
The others were taken captive, and put in a deep cave by the river-demon to wait until they had caught Sun Hou, when all should be eaten together.
What happens: take, put, wait, catch, eat · To what, where: others, deep cave, all
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: 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 | 2 others | det |
| 2 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 taken | aux:pass |
| 4 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | captive | captive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 taken | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 put | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 put | cc |
| 8 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 taken | conj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 cave | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 cave | det |
| 11 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 cave | amod |
| 12 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 put | obl |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 demon | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 demon | det |
| 15 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 demon | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 river | punct |
| 17 | demon | demon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 put | obl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 wait | mark |
| 19 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 put | advcl |
| 20 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 23 caught | mark |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 caught | aux |
| 23 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 wait | advcl |
| 24 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 caught | obj |
| 25 | Hou | Hou | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Sun | flat |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 eaten | punct |
| 27 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 31 eaten | mark |
| 28 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 eaten | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 eaten | aux |
| 30 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 31 eaten | aux:pass |
| 31 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 caught | conj |
| 32 | together | together | ADV | _ | 31 eaten | advmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past · passive | the others | captive property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | put | participle | a deep cave | by the river demon | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in cave=Destination | ||||
| 3 | wait | to-infinitive | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | catch | past · perfect · passive | others = other | Sun obj | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary sun=Theme | ||||
| 5 | eat | should · passive | all | together property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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