Gleanings from Chinese folklore, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics, sentence 8
With one jump I can touch the heavens; I can walk on water and on the air; I can change myself into seventy-two different shapes.”
Who acts: I · What happens: touch, walk, change · To what, where: heavens, water, myself, two different shapes
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 (I), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 jump | case |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 jump | nummod |
| 3 | jump | jump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 touch | obl |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 touch | nsubj |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 touch | aux |
| 6 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 heavens | det |
| 8 | heavens | heaven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 touch | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 walk | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 walk | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 walk | aux |
| 12 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 touch | conj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 water | case |
| 14 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 walk | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 air | cc |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 air | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 air | det |
| 18 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 water | conj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 change | punct |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 change | nsubj |
| 21 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 change | aux |
| 22 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 touch | conj |
| 23 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 22 change | obj |
| 24 | into | into | ADP | _ | 29 shapes | case |
| 25 | seventy | seventy | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 two | compound |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 seventy | punct |
| 27 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 shapes | nummod |
| 28 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 shapes | amod |
| 29 | shapes | shape | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 change | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 touch | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 touch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | touch | can | I | the heavens | with one jump | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent heaven=Experiencer with jump=Instrument | |||
| 2 | walk | can | I | water and the air | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on water=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | change | can | I | myself | into two different shapes result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent myself=Patient into shape=Result |
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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