Gleanings from Chinese folklore, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics, sentence 52
Day after day, Sun Hou went down on the river bank and reviled them.
Who acts: Sun · What happens: go down, revile · To what, where: Day, river bank, others
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 (Sun), 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 | Day | Day | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl:unmarked |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 3 day | case |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Day | nmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Day | punct |
| 5 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 went | nsubj |
| 6 | Hou | Hou | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Sun | flat |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | down | down | ADV | _ | 7 went | advmod |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 bank | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bank | det |
| 11 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bank | compound |
| 12 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 reviled | cc |
| 14 | reviled | revile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 went | conj |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 reviled | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go down | past | Sun | Day after day | the river bank | down property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on bank=Location | ||
| 2 | revile | past | Sun not said here | others = other | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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