Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8, sentence 43
It happened that the owner of the inn was passing before the door of the room where Ki-Si and his wife were and San-Syeng promptly told him the story.
Who acts: It, owner, Ki, San · What happens: happen, pass, be, tell · To what, where: door, story, owner · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (It, owner, Ki, San), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 passing | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 owner | det |
| 5 | owner | owner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 passing | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 inn | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 inn | det |
| 8 | inn | inn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 owner | nmod |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 passing | aux |
| 10 | passing | pass | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 happened | advcl |
| 11 | before | before | ADP | _ | 13 door | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 door | det |
| 13 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 passing | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 room | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 room | det |
| 16 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 door | nmod |
| 17 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 24 were | advmod |
| 18 | Ki | Ki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 were | nsubj |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 Si | punct |
| 20 | Si | Si | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Ki | conj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 wife | cc |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 wife | nmod:poss |
| 23 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Ki | conj |
| 24 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 room | acl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 told | cc |
| 26 | San | San | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 told | nsubj |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 San | punct |
| 28 | Syeng | Syeng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 San | flat |
| 29 | promptly | promptly | ADV | _ | 30 told | advmod |
| 30 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 were | conj |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 told | iobj |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 story | det |
| 33 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 told | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | It | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | pass | past · progressive | the owner of the inn | the door of the room | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before door=Location | ||||
| 3 | be | past | Ki and Si and owner's wife | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past | San | the story | owner | promptly property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient story=Topic |
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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