Gleanings from Chinese folklore, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics, sentence 98
Thus the Minister Sheep was obliged to get in.
What happens: oblige, get in · To what, where: Minister Sheep
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: 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 | _ | 6 obliged | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Sheep | det |
| 3 | Minister | Minister | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Sheep | compound |
| 4 | Sheep | Sheep | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 obliged | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 obliged | aux:pass |
| 6 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 get | mark |
| 8 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 obliged | advcl |
| 9 | in | in | ADV | _ | 8 get | advmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 obliged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | oblige | past · passive | the Minister Sheep | thus property | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | get in | to-infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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