Gleanings from Chinese folklore, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics, sentence 60

He used to live in my sea, and is my special food fish, but he rebelled and ran away and for many years has lived in the great river.

Who acts: monkey · What happens: use, live, be, rebel, run away · To what, where: sea, special food fish, great river

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 (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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 used	nsubj
2	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 live	mark
4	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 used	xcomp
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 sea	case
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 sea	nmod:poss
7	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 live	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 fish	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 fish	cc
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 fish	cop
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 fish	nmod:poss
12	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 fish	amod
13	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fish	compound
14	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 used	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 rebelled	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 rebelled	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 rebelled	nsubj
18	rebelled	rebel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 used	parataxis
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 ran	cc
20	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 rebelled	conj
21	away	away	ADV	_	20 ran	advmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 lived	cc
23	for	for	ADP	_	25 years	case
24	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 years	amod
25	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 lived	obl
26	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 lived	aux
27	lived	live	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 rebelled	conj
28	in	in	ADP	_	31 river	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 river	det
30	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 river	amod
31	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 lived	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 used	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	past	monkey					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	live	to-infinitive	monkey not said here		my sea			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sea=Location
3	is a	present		my special food fish			my nmod:poss	tree rules
4	rebel	past	monkey					vn rebel-71.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	run away	past	monkey not said here				away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	live	present · perfect	monkey not said here		the great river	year		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in river=Location

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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🌲 Gleanings from Chinese folklore, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics, sentence 60

The tree

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Gleanings from Chinese folklore, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics, sentence 60