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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics, sentence 12

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Going along a few more miles they met a pig, and on hearing from the monkey where they were going, said he also would go and help find the books.

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**Who acts:** miles, monkey · **What happens:** go, meet, say, help, find · **To what, where:** pig, hearing, books · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (miles, monkey), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg75089:16:12
# text = Going along a few more miles they met a pig, and on hearing from the monkey where they were going, said he also would go and help find the books.
1	Going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
2	along	along	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	_
6	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	pig	pig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	hearing	hearing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	21	advmod	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
23	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	also	also	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
26	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	ccomp	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	conj	_	_
30	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | gerund | miles *= mile* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | along a few more miles | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme along mile=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **meet** | past | miles *= mile* | a pig |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pig=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **go** | past · progressive | miles *= mile* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | miles *= mile* *not said here* |  |  | hearing from the monkey |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **go** | would | monkey |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **help** | infinitive | monkey *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 7 | **find** | infinitive | monkey *not said here* | the books |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Topic |

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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.

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**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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