Gleanings from Chinese folklore, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics, sentence 72
Now, this king had three famous ministers called Fox, Deer, and Sheep.
Who acts: king, three famous ministers · What happens: have, call · To what, where: three famous ministers, Fox · 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 (king, three famous ministers), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 had | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 ministers | nummod |
| 7 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 ministers | amod |
| 8 | ministers | minister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 had | obj |
| 9 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 ministers | acl |
| 10 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 called | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Deer | punct |
| 12 | Deer | Deer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Fox | appos |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Sheep | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 Sheep | cc |
| 15 | Sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 had | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | this king | three famous ministers | now | Sheep obl | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent minister=Patient | ||
| 2 | call | participle | three famous ministers not said here | Fox | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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