Gleanings from Chinese folklore, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics, sentence 88
“If you don’t, we will fight,” said Sun Hou.
Who acts: you, we, Sun Hou · What happens: not do, fight, say · 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 (you, we, Sun Hou), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 fight | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 do | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 do | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 fight | advcl |
| 5 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 do | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 7 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 fight | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 fight | aux |
| 9 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 fight | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 fight | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Hou | compound |
| 14 | Hou | Hou | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | fight in a quote | future | we | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Sun Hou | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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