Winning Buddha's smile, Opening, sentence 18
At one time when religious dissension was rife on the peninsula, many of the monuments of a rich and abundant literature, especially those tinged with Buddhistic doctrines and thought, were consigned to the bonfire.
What happens: be, ting, think, consign · To what, where: dissension rife, peninsula, those · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Opening. 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 time | nummod |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rife | obl |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 religious | advmod |
| 5 | religious | religious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 dissension | amod |
| 6 | dissension | dissension | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rife | compound |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 rife | cop |
| 8 | rife | rife | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 peninsula | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 peninsula | det |
| 11 | peninsula | peninsula | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rife | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 monuments | punct |
| 13 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 monuments | amod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 monuments | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 monuments | det |
| 16 | monuments | monument | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 rife | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 literature | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 literature | det |
| 19 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 literature | amod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 abundant | cc |
| 21 | abundant | abundant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 rich | conj |
| 22 | literature | literature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 monuments | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 tinged | punct |
| 24 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 26 tinged | advmod |
| 25 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 26 tinged | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | tinged | ting | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 rife | parataxis |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 doctrines | case |
| 28 | Buddhistic | buddhistic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 doctrines | amod |
| 29 | doctrines | doctrine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 tinged | obl |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 thought | cc |
| 31 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 tinged | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 consigned | punct |
| 33 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 consigned | aux:pass |
| 34 | consigned | consign | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 thought | ccomp |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 bonfire | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 bonfire | det |
| 37 | bonfire | bonfire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 consigned | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 rife | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | dissension rife and the many monuments of a rich literature | the peninsula | time | the many monuments of a rich literature conj | tree rules | ||
| 2 | ting | participle · passive | those | with Buddhistic doctrines; especially property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | consign | past · passive | to the bonfire | tree rules |
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: «Winning Buddha's smile», Project Gutenberg book 78208 (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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