Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8, sentence 156

Ou-Pung, the sister, consented to take the young traveler in, but made it very plain that it was impossible for her to keep a man about the house for more than two or three days.

What happens: consent, take, make, be, keep · To what, where: young traveler, traveler, man, sister

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: 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	Ou	Ou	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 sister	nsubj
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 Pung	punct
3	Pung	Pung	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Ou	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sister	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sister	det
6	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 consented	punct
8	consented	consent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 sister	amod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 take	mark
10	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 consented	xcomp
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 traveler	det
12	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 traveler	amod
13	traveler	traveler	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 take	obj
14	in	in	ADV	_	10 take	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 made	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 made	cc
17	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sister	parataxis
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 made	obj
19	very	very	ADV	_	20 plain	advmod
20	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 made	xcomp
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 impossible	mark
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 impossible	expl
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 impossible	cop
24	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 plain	conj
25	for	for	ADP	_	26 her	case
26	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 impossible	obl
27	to	to	PART	_	28 keep	mark
28	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 impossible	csubj
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 man	det
30	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 keep	obj
31	about	about	ADP	_	33 house	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 house	det
33	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 man	nmod
34	for	for	ADP	_	40 days	case
35	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	37 two	advmod
36	than	than	ADP	_	35 more	fixed
37	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	40 days	nummod
38	or	or	CCONJ	_	39 three	cc
39	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 two	conj
40	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 keep	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 sister	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	consent	participle				vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	take	to-infinitive	the young traveler			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent traveler=Theme
3	make	past	traveler		plain property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product
4	is	past			for Pung; impossible property	tree rules
5	keep	to-infinitive	a man	day	about the house	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent man=Theme about house=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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🌲 Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8, sentence 156

The tree

Pragmatics

Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8, sentence 156