Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8, sentence 34
I became his wife and we fled from our prison together and you met us, rescued us, and brought us here.
Who acts: I, we, you · What happens: become, flee, meet, rescue, bring · To what, where: wife, prison, us
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 (I, we, you), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 became | nsubj |
| 2 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 wife | nmod:poss |
| 4 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 became | xcomp |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 fled | cc |
| 6 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 fled | nsubj |
| 7 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 became | conj |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 prison | case |
| 9 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 prison | nmod:poss |
| 10 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fled | obl |
| 11 | together | together | ADV | _ | 7 fled | advmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 met | cc |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 met | nsubj |
| 14 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 became | conj |
| 15 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 met | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 rescued | punct |
| 17 | rescued | rescue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 met | conj |
| 18 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 rescued | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 brought | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 brought | cc |
| 21 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 became | conj |
| 22 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 brought | obj |
| 23 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 brought | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | I | Prince's wife | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | flee | past | we | our prison | together property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from prison=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | meet | past | you | us | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | rescue | past | you not said here | us | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme | ||||
| 5 | bring | past | I not said here | us | here | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument we=Destination |
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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