Gleanings from Chinese folklore, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics, sentence 77
While thus sitting the sheep changed himself into a worm and crawled up on the bald head of the priest, and bit his head in many places.
What happens: sit, change, crawl up, bite · To what, where: sheep, T’ang, bald head, head, many places
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: 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 3 sitting | mark |
| 2 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 3 sitting | advmod |
| 3 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 changed | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sheep | det |
| 5 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sitting | obj |
| 6 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 changed | obj |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 worm | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 worm | det |
| 10 | worm | worm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 changed | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 crawled | cc |
| 12 | crawled | crawl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 changed | conj |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 crawled | compound:prt |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 head | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 head | det |
| 16 | bald | bald | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 head | amod |
| 17 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 crawled | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 priest | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 priest | det |
| 20 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 head | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 bit | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 bit | cc |
| 23 | bit | bite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 changed | parataxis |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 head | nmod:poss |
| 25 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 bit | obj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 places | case |
| 27 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 places | amod |
| 28 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 bit | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 changed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | gerund | the sheep | thus property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sheep=Theme | ||||
| 2 | change | past | T’ang = t'ang | into a worm result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent himself=Patient into worm=Result | ||||
| 3 | crawl up | past | the bald head of the priest | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on head=Trajectory | |||||
| 4 | bite | past | T’ang's head | many places | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent head=Patient in place=Location |
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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