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Gleanings from Chinese folklore, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics, sentence 9

After some more conversation the monk consented to the company of the monkey, and giving him the name Sun Hou, he fastened a string to his neck and started on his way.

Who acts: monkey · What happens: consent, give, fasten, start · To what, where: monk, name, monkey, string, way

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 (monkey), 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

casedetamodobldetapposaclcasedetoblcasedetnmodpunctccadvcliobjdetobjapposflatpunctnsubjdetobjcasenmod:possoblccconjcasenmod:possoblpunctrootAfterADPsomeDETmoreADJconversationNOUNtheDETmonkNOUNconsentedVERBtoADPtheDETcompanyNOUNofADPtheDETmonkeyNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJgivingVERBhimPRONtheDETnameNOUNSunPROPNHouPROPN,PUNCThePRONfastenedVERBaDETstringNOUNtoADPhisPRONneckNOUNandCCONJstartedVERBonADPhisPRONwayNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AfterafterADP_4 conversationcase
2somesomeDETPronType=Ind4 conversationdet
3moremoreADJDegree=Cmp4 conversationamod
4conversationconversationNOUNNumber=Sing24 fastenedobl
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 monkdet
6monkmonkNOUNNumber=Sing4 conversationappos
7consentedconsentVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass6 monkacl
8totoADP_10 companycase
9thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art10 companydet
10companycompanyNOUNNumber=Sing7 consentedobl
11ofofADP_13 monkeycase
12thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art13 monkeydet
13monkeymonkeyNOUNNumber=Sing10 companynmod
14,,PUNCT_24 fastenedpunct
15andandCCONJ_24 fastenedcc
16givinggiveVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part24 fastenedadvcl
17himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs16 givingiobj
18thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art19 namedet
19namenameNOUNNumber=Sing16 givingobj
20SunSunPROPNNumber=Sing19 nameappos
21HouHouPROPNNumber=Sing20 Sunflat
22,,PUNCT_16 givingpunct
23hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs24 fastenednsubj
24fastenedfastenVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
25aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art26 stringdet
26stringstringNOUNNumber=Sing24 fastenedobj
27totoADP_29 neckcase
28hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs29 necknmod:poss
29neckneckNOUNNumber=Sing24 fastenedobl
30andandCCONJ_31 startedcc
31startedstartVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin24 fastenedconj
32ononADP_34 waycase
33hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs34 waynmod:poss
34waywayNOUNNumber=Sing31 startedobl
35..PUNCT_24 fastenedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1consentparticiplethe monk not said hereto the company of the monkeyvn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to company=Theme
2givegerundmonkey not said herethe namemonkeyvn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient name=Theme
3fastenpastmonkeya stringafter some more conversationto monkey's neckvn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent string=Patient to neck=Co-Patient
4startpastmonkey not said heremonkey's wayvn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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