Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8, sentence 118
The populace, rising in revolt against the nobility and tax collectors, were burning and pillaging throughout the village and Yeng-So-Yei just had time enough to dash through a secret gate in the city wall and make her escape into the open country.
Who acts: populace, Yei · What happens: rise, burn, pillage, have, dash, make · To what, where: revolt, secret gate, Yei, open country
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 (populace, Yei), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 populace | det |
| 2 | populace | populace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 burning | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 rising | punct |
| 4 | rising | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 populace | acl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 revolt | case |
| 6 | revolt | revolt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rising | obl |
| 7 | against | against | ADP | _ | 9 nobility | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 nobility | det |
| 9 | nobility | nobility | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rising | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 collectors | cc |
| 11 | tax | tax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 collectors | compound |
| 12 | collectors | collector | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 nobility | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 populace | punct |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 burning | aux |
| 15 | burning | burn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 pillaging | cc |
| 17 | pillaging | pillage | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 burning | conj |
| 18 | throughout | throughout | ADP | _ | 20 village | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 village | det |
| 20 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 pillaging | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 Yeng | cc |
| 22 | Yeng | Yeng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 village | conj |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 Yeng | punct |
| 24 | So | so | ADV | _ | 28 had | advmod |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 Yei | punct |
| 26 | Yei | Yei | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 had | nsubj |
| 27 | just | just | ADV | _ | 28 had | advmod |
| 28 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 pillaging | advcl |
| 29 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 had | obj |
| 30 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 29 time | advmod |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 dash | mark |
| 32 | dash | dash | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 time | acl |
| 33 | through | through | ADP | _ | 36 gate | case |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 gate | det |
| 35 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 gate | amod |
| 36 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 dash | obl |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 wall | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 wall | det |
| 39 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 wall | compound |
| 40 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 dash | obl |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 make | cc |
| 42 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 dash | conj |
| 43 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 make | obj |
| 44 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 42 make | xcomp |
| 45 | into | into | ADP | _ | 48 country | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 country | det |
| 47 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 country | amod |
| 48 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 escape | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 burning | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | gerund | the populace not said here | revolt | against the nobility and tax collectors | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in revolt=Location | |||
| 2 | burn | past · progressive | the populace | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | pillage | gerund | the populace not said here | throughout the village and Yeng | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | have | past | Yei | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | dash | to-infinitive | Yei not said here | a secret gate | in the city wall | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through gate=Trajectory | |||
| 6 | make | infinitive | Yei not said here | Yei | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | escape | infinitive | Yei not said here | the open country | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into country=Initial_Location |
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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