Gleanings from Chinese folklore, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics, sentence 93
“Well,” said the Sheep, “we will build a fire, put on a big kettle of oil, and when it boils we will take turns in getting in and staying two hours.
Who acts: Sheep, we, fire · What happens: say, build, put, boil, take, get in · To what, where: fire, big kettle, turns · 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 (Sheep, we, fire), 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Sheep | det |
| 7 | Sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 build | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 build | punct |
| 10 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 build | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 build | aux |
| 12 | build | build | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 fire | det |
| 14 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 build | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 put | punct |
| 16 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 build | conj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 kettle | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 kettle | det |
| 19 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 kettle | amod |
| 20 | kettle | kettle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 put | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 oil | case |
| 22 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 kettle | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 boils | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 boils | cc |
| 25 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 27 boils | advmod |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 boils | nsubj |
| 27 | boils | boil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 28 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 take | nsubj |
| 29 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 take | aux |
| 30 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 boils | ccomp |
| 31 | turns | turn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 take | obj |
| 32 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 33 getting | mark |
| 33 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 30 take | advcl |
| 34 | in | in | ADV | _ | 33 getting | advmod |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 staying | cc |
| 36 | staying | stay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 33 getting | conj |
| 37 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 38 hours | nummod |
| 38 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 staying | obl:unmarked |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Sheep | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | build in a quote | future | we | a fire | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Product | ||||
| 3 | put in a quote | participle | we not said here | a big kettle of oil | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on kettle=Destination | ||||
| 4 | boil in a quote | present | fire | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | take in a quote | future | we | turns | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turn=Theme | ||||
| 6 | get in in a quote | gerund | we not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 7 | stay in a quote | gerund | we not said here | hour | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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