Gleanings from Chinese folklore, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics, sentence 61
You go back and call him and fight again, and I will come and get him in my basket.”
Who acts: You, I · What happens: go back, call, fight, come, get · To what, where: monkey, basket · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (You, I), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 go | nsubj |
| 2 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | back | back | ADV | _ | 2 go | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 call | cc |
| 5 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 go | conj |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 call | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 fight | cc |
| 8 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 call | conj |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 8 fight | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 come | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 come | cc |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 come | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 come | aux |
| 14 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 go | parataxis |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 get | cc |
| 16 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 come | conj |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 get | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 basket | case |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 basket | nmod:poss |
| 20 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 get | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 go | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go back | present | You | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | call | infinitive | You not said here | monkey | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | fight | infinitive | You not said here | again | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | come | future | I | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | get | infinitive | I not said here | monkey | my basket | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=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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