Gleanings from Chinese folklore, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics, sentence 80
He entered his nose, got into his ear, and up into his head, and so distracted did the minister become that he could not endure the pain, and threw himself from the platform and thus died.
Who acts: trick, minister · What happens: enter, get, distract, become, not endure, throw · To what, where: nose, ear, pain, trick, platform
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 (trick, minister), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 entered | nsubj |
| 2 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 nose | nmod:poss |
| 4 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 entered | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 got | punct |
| 6 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 entered | conj |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 ear | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 ear | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 got | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 head | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 head | cc |
| 12 | up | up | ADV | _ | 15 head | advmod |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 head | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 head | nmod:poss |
| 15 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 entered | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 become | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 become | cc |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 distracted | advmod |
| 19 | distracted | distract | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 become | advcl |
| 20 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 become | aux |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 minister | det |
| 22 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 become | nsubj |
| 23 | become | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 entered | conj |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 endure | mark |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 endure | nsubj |
| 26 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 endure | aux |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 endure | advmod |
| 28 | endure | endure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 become | advcl |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 pain | det |
| 30 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 endure | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 threw | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 threw | cc |
| 33 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 entered | parataxis |
| 34 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 33 threw | obj |
| 35 | from | from | ADP | _ | 37 platform | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 platform | det |
| 37 | platform | platform | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 threw | obl |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 died | cc |
| 39 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 40 died | advmod |
| 40 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 threw | conj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | trick | trick's nose | trick's head advcl | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme nose=Destination | |||
| 2 | get | past | trick not said here | trick's ear | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into ear=Destination | ||||
| 3 | distract | participle | the minister not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | become | past · do-support | the minister | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | not endure | could | trick | the pain | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme pain=Circumstance | ||||
| 6 | throw | past | trick | the platform | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent himself=Theme from platform=Initial_Location | ||||
| 7 | die | past | thus property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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