Gleanings from Chinese folklore, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics, sentence 54
At last one day Sun Hou took a mighty jump and arrived at the home of the Goddess of Mercy, who was in her palace in the Southern Sea.
Who acts: Sun, home · What happens: take, arrive, be · To what, where: mighty jump, home, palace
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, home), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 day | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 day | amod |
| 3 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 day | compound |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 took | obl |
| 5 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 took | nsubj |
| 6 | Hou | Hou | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Sun | flat |
| 7 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 jump | det |
| 9 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 jump | amod |
| 10 | jump | jump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 took | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 arrived | cc |
| 12 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 took | conj |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 home | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 home | det |
| 15 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 arrived | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Goddess | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Goddess | det |
| 18 | Goddess | Goddess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 home | nmod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Mercy | case |
| 20 | Mercy | Mercy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Goddess | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 palace | punct |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 palace | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 palace | cop |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 palace | case |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 palace | nmod:poss |
| 26 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 home | conj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 Sea | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Sea | det |
| 29 | Southern | Southern | PROPN | _ | 30 Sea | compound |
| 30 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 palace | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Sun | a mighty jump | day | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jump=Theme | |||
| 2 | arrive | past | Sun not said here | the home of the Goddess of Mercy and Mercy's palace | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the home of the Goddess of Mercy and Mercy's palace | Mercy's palace | in the Southern Sea; Mercy nmod:poss | tree rules |
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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