--- title: One day they travelled till night; all day they had been without foo… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics description: One day they travelled till night; all day they had been without food, and as darkness came on and no village was in sight the monkey said, “I will jump and see where a village is.” Who acts: demons, day, monkey, village. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (demons, day, monkey, village), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg75089:16:20 # text = One day they travelled till night; all day they had been without food, and as darkness came on and no village was in sight the monkey said, “I will jump and see where a village is.” 1 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl:unmarked _ _ 3 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 travelled travel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 till till ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ; ; PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 8 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 9 det _ _ 9 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 10 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 11 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 12 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 14 cop _ _ 13 without without ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 as as ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 darkness darkness NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 19 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 advcl _ _ 20 on on ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 22 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 23 det _ _ 23 village village NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 24 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 monkey monkey NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 “ " PUNCT `` _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 33 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 jump jump VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 ccomp _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 conj _ _ 37 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 40 advmod _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 village village NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 40 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ” " PUNCT '' _ 34 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **travel** | past | demons *= demon* | | | | day; night | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is** | past · perfect | all day | | | | | without food; demons *= demon* *nsubj* | tree rules | | 3 | **come on** | past | the monkey *not said here* | | | | | as darkness | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is** | past | no village | | | sight | | | tree rules | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the monkey | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **jump** *in a quote* | future | the monkey *= monkey* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **see** *in a quote* | infinitive | the monkey *= monkey* *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 8 | **be** *in a quote* | present | a village | | | | | | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/16/19/) - next →: [sentence 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/16/21/) - ↑ back to [T’ang Sung’s Journey to Get the Buddhist Classics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75089/16/)