Gleanings from Chinese folklore, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics, sentence 96
After two hours Minister Sheep said, “He is dead,” and getting a skimmer he felt around and brought out a nail, which changed to a man, saying, “Ah, I was asleep; having such a good rest.
Who acts: Minister Sheep, Sun, nail · What happens: say, be, get, feel around, bring out, change · To what, where: skimmer, nail, good rest · 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 (Minister Sheep, Sun, nail), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 hours | case |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 hours | nummod |
| 3 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 said | obl |
| 4 | Minister | Minister | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Sheep | compound |
| 5 | Sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 dead | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 dead | punct |
| 9 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 dead | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 dead | cop |
| 11 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 said | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 dead | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 dead | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 felt | cc |
| 15 | getting | get | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 felt | csubj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 skimmer | det |
| 17 | skimmer | skimmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 getting | obj |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 felt | nsubj |
| 19 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | conj |
| 20 | around | around | ADV | _ | 19 felt | advmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 brought | cc |
| 22 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 felt | conj |
| 23 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 brought | compound:prt |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 nail | det |
| 25 | nail | nail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 brought | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 changed | punct |
| 27 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 changed | nsubj |
| 28 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 nail | acl:relcl |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 man | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 man | det |
| 31 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 changed | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 saying | punct |
| 33 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 changed | advcl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 asleep | punct |
| 35 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 40 asleep | punct |
| 36 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 40 asleep | discourse |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 Ah | punct |
| 38 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 40 asleep | nsubj |
| 39 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 asleep | cop |
| 40 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 saying | ccomp |
| 41 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 42 having | punct |
| 42 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 felt | advcl |
| 43 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 46 rest | det:predet |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 rest | det |
| 45 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 rest | amod |
| 46 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 having | obj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Minister Sheep | hour | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | Sun | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | get | gerund | a skimmer | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer skimmer=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | feel around | past | Sun | around property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | bring out | past | Sun not said here | a nail | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent nail=Patient | ||||
| 6 | change | past | a nail | to a man result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Agent to man=Result | ||||
| 7 | say speech: assert | gerund | a nail not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | is in a quote | past | a nail = nail | asleep property | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | have in a quote | gerund | Sun not said here | such good rest | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Patient |
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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