Gleanings from Chinese folklore, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics, sentence 53
Many were the fierce battles they fought but neither could get the victory.
Who acts: Many fierce battles · What happens: be, fight, get · To what, where: Many fierce battles, victory
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 (Many fierce battles), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 battles | amod |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 battles | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 battles | det |
| 4 | fierce | fierce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 battles | amod |
| 5 | battles | battle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 fought | nsubj |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 fought | nsubj |
| 7 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 get | cc |
| 9 | neither | neither | ADV | _ | 11 get | advmod |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 get | aux |
| 11 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 fought | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 victory | det |
| 13 | victory | victory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 get | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 fought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the Many fierce battles | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | fight | past | the Many fierce battles | others = other nsubj | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | get | could | the Many fierce battles not said here | the victory | neither property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer victory=Stimulus |
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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