Gleanings from Chinese folklore, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics, sentence 95
So all was ready and Sun Hou got in; before getting in he repeated a charm to the dragon, who came and changed him into a nail and kept the oil in the bottom of the kettle cold while it boiled on top.
Who acts: all, Sun · What happens: be, get in, get, repeat, come, change · To what, where: charm, Sun, nail, oil, bottom
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 (all, Sun), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 ready | advmod |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 ready | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ready | cop |
| 4 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 got | cc |
| 6 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 got | nsubj |
| 7 | Hou | Hou | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Sun | flat |
| 8 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ready | conj |
| 9 | in | in | ADV | _ | 8 got | advmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 getting | punct |
| 11 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 12 getting | mark |
| 12 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 got | advcl |
| 13 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 15 repeated | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 repeated | nsubj |
| 15 | repeated | repeat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 getting | advcl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 charm | det |
| 17 | charm | charm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 repeated | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 dragon | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 dragon | det |
| 20 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 came | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 came | punct |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 came | nsubj |
| 23 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 repeated | parataxis |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 changed | cc |
| 25 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 came | conj |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 changed | obj |
| 27 | into | into | ADP | _ | 29 nail | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 nail | det |
| 29 | nail | nail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 changed | obl |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 kept | cc |
| 31 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 came | conj |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 oil | det |
| 33 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 kept | obj |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 bottom | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 bottom | det |
| 36 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 kept | obl |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 kettle | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 kettle | det |
| 39 | kettle | kettle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 bottom | nmod |
| 40 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 kept | xcomp |
| 41 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 43 boiled | mark |
| 42 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 boiled | nsubj:pass |
| 43 | boiled | boil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 kept | advcl |
| 44 | on | on | ADP | _ | 45 top | case |
| 45 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 boiled | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ready | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | all | ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get in | past | Sun | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | get | gerund | Sun not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | repeat | past | Sun | a charm | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charm=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | come | past | to the dragon; who nsubj | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to dragon=Initial_Location | |||||
| 6 | change | past | Sun | into a nail result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent he=Patient into nail=Result | ||||
| 7 | keep | past | the oil | the bottom of the kettle | cold property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent oil=Theme in bottom=Location | |||
| 8 | boil | participle · passive | oil | on top | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient on top=Instrument |
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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