Gleanings from Chinese folklore, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics, sentence 74
To the question as to whether their contest was to be of military skill or a contest of mind, the monkey chose the latter.
Who acts: contest, monkey, ministers · What happens: be, choose, contest · To what, where: latter, mind
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 (contest, monkey, 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 3 question | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 question | det |
| 3 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 chose | obl |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 14 skill | case |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 as | fixed |
| 6 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 14 skill | mark |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 contest | nmod:poss |
| 8 | contest | contest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 skill | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 skill | cop |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 skill | mark |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 skill | cop |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 skill | case |
| 13 | military | military | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 skill | amod |
| 14 | skill | skill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 question | nmod |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 contest | cc |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 contest | det |
| 17 | contest | contest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 skill | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 mind | case |
| 19 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 contest | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 question | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 monkey | det |
| 22 | monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 chose | nsubj |
| 23 | chose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 latter | det |
| 25 | latter | latter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 chose | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 chose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | ministers's contest | as military skill or a contest of mind | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | choose | past | the monkey | the latter | to the question | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent latter=Theme | |||
| 3 | contest | ministers = minister | nom contest «event transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 4 | contest | mind | nom contest «event transitive»: of=patient |
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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