Gleanings from Chinese folklore, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics, sentence 68
Will you ask the merciful Buddha what my after-life is to be like?”
Who acts: you · What happens: ask · To what, where: merciful Buddha
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), 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 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 ask | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 ask | nsubj |
| 3 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Buddha | det |
| 5 | merciful | merciful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Buddha | amod |
| 6 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ask | obj |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 Buddha | nmod |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 life | nmod:poss |
| 9 | after | after | ADP | _ | 11 life | case |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 after | punct |
| 11 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 like | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 like | cop |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 like | mark |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 like | cop |
| 15 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 what | acl:relcl |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 ask | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | future | you | the merciful Buddha | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent buddha=Recipient |
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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