Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8, sentence 128
The grove of bamboo toward which Fate had turned the steps of Yeng-So-Yei was the very one where so many long years before Yeng-Si had given birth to San-Syeng.
Who acts: Fate, Yei · What happens: turn, be, give, step · To what, where: steps, grove, one, Yeng, 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 (Fate, 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 grove | det |
| 2 | grove | grove | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 bamboo | case |
| 4 | bamboo | bamboo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 grove | nmod |
| 5 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 6 which | case |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 turned | obl |
| 7 | Fate | Fate | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 turned | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 turned | aux |
| 9 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 grove | acl:relcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 steps | det |
| 11 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 turned | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Yeng | case |
| 13 | Yeng | Yeng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 steps | nmod |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 steps | punct |
| 15 | So | so | ADV | _ | 21 one | advmod |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 Yei | punct |
| 17 | Yei | Yei | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 one | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 one | cop |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 one | det |
| 20 | very | very | ADV | _ | 21 one | advmod |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 turned | obl |
| 22 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 32 given | advmod |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 many | advmod |
| 24 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 years | amod |
| 25 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 years | amod |
| 26 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 given | obl:unmarked |
| 27 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 32 given | mark |
| 28 | Yeng | Yeng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 given | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 Yeng | punct |
| 30 | Si | Si | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Yeng | flat |
| 31 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 given | aux |
| 32 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 one | acl |
| 33 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 given | obj |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 San | case |
| 35 | San | San | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 given | obl |
| 36 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 37 Syeng | punct |
| 37 | Syeng | Syeng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 San | flat |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 grove | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past · perfect | Fate | the steps of Yeng | the grove of bamboo | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent step=Theme toward which=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | is a | past | Yei | the one | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | give | past · perfect · passive | Yeng | San | year | birth obj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient birth=Theme | ||
| 5 | step | Yeng | nom step «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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