Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8, sentence 111
His primary duty was to find his parents and to return to the lovely girl to whom he had given his heart.
Who acts: primary duty · What happens: be, return, give · To what, where: San
This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (primary duty), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 duty | nmod:poss |
| 2 | primary | primary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 duty | amod |
| 3 | duty | duty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 find | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 find | cop |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 find | mark |
| 6 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 parents | nmod:poss |
| 8 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 find | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 return | cc |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 return | mark |
| 11 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 find | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 girl | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 girl | det |
| 14 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 girl | amod |
| 15 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 return | obl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 whom | case |
| 17 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 girl | nmod |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 given | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 given | aux |
| 20 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 whom | acl:relcl |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 heart | nmod:poss |
| 22 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 given | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | San's primary duty | San's parents obj; find property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | return | to-infinitive | San's primary duty not said here | to the lovely girl result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to girl=Result | ||||
| 3 | give | past · perfect · passive | San | San's heart obj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient heart=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: «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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