Gleanings from Chinese folklore, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics, sentence 89

Thus driven, he cut his head off, and the monkey, changing to a dog, ran away with it and was gone two hours,—so long that the man died also.

Who acts: Hou, man · What happens: drive, cut off, change, run away, be, die · To what, where: head

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 (Hou, man), 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	Thus	thus	ADV	_	5 cut	advmod
2	driven	drive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 cut	advcl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 driven	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cut	nsubj
5	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 head	nmod:poss
7	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cut	obj
8	off	off	ADP	_	5 cut	compound:prt
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 monkey	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 monkey	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 monkey	det
12	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cut	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 changing	punct
14	changing	change	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 cut	advcl
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 dog	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 dog	det
17	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 changing	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 ran	punct
19	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cut	parataxis
20	away	away	ADV	_	19 ran	advmod
21	with	with	ADP	_	22 it	case
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 ran	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 gone	cc
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 gone	cop
25	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 ran	conj
26	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 hours	nummod
27	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 gone	obl:unmarked
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 long	punct
29	—	-	PUNCT	_	31 long	punct
30	so	so	ADV	_	31 long	advmod
31	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 gone	conj
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 died	mark
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 man	det
34	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 died	nsubj
35	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 long	advcl
36	also	also	ADV	_	35 died	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 cut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	drive	participle	Hou not said here				vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	cut off	past	Hou	Hou's head		the monkey obl; thus property	vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality
3	change	gerund	Hou not said here			to a dog result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Agent to dog=Result
4	run away	past				with head; away property	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with it=Material
5	is	past			hour	gone property	tree rules
6	be						tree rules
7	die	past	the man				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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🌲 Gleanings from Chinese folklore, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics, sentence 89

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Gleanings from Chinese folklore, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics, sentence 89