Gleanings from Chinese folklore, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics, sentence 67
This they did, and on the way the turtle said, “You are going to India to find out how one can live forever?
Who acts: This, You, one · What happens: do, say, go, find out, live · To what, where: way, India · 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 (This, You, one), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 did | nsubj |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 way | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 way | det |
| 8 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 turtle | det |
| 10 | turtle | turtle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 way | nmod |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 going | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 going | punct |
| 14 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 going | nsubj |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 going | aux |
| 16 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 said | ccomp |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 India | case |
| 18 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 going | obl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 find | mark |
| 20 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 going | advcl |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 find | compound:prt |
| 22 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 live | advmod |
| 23 | one | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 live | nsubj |
| 24 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 live | aux |
| 25 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 find | ccomp |
| 26 | forever | forever | ADV | _ | 25 live | advmod |
| 27 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | This | demons = demon nsubj | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | This not said here | the way the turtle | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | go in a quote | present · progressive | You | India | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to india=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | find out in a quote | to-infinitive | You not said here | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | live in a quote | can | one | forever property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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