Gleanings from Chinese folklore, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics, sentence 62
In the terrible battle which followed the Goddess of Mercy let from Heaven a basket and took him in and up to Heaven.
Who acts: terrible battle, Goddess · What happens: follow, let, take · To what, where: basket, terrible battle, monkey, Heaven
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 (terrible battle, Goddess), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 battle | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 battle | det |
| 3 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 battle | amod |
| 4 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 let | obl |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 followed | nsubj |
| 6 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 battle | acl:relcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Goddess | det |
| 8 | Goddess | Goddess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 let | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Mercy | case |
| 10 | Mercy | Mercy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Goddess | nmod |
| 11 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 Heaven | case |
| 13 | Heaven | Heaven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 let | obl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 basket | det |
| 15 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 let | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 took | cc |
| 17 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 let | conj |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 took | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADV | _ | 17 took | advmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 up | cc |
| 21 | up | up | ADV | _ | 19 in | conj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 Heaven | case |
| 23 | Heaven | Heaven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 took | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past | the terrible battle | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | let | past | the Goddess of Mercy | a basket | the terrible battle | from Heaven | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent basket=Theme | ||
| 3 | take | past | the Goddess of Mercy not said here | monkey | Heaven | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to heaven=Destination |
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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