Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8, sentence 45
He lost no time in telling the Mandarin, who was thunderstruck with amazement and who could scarcely suppress his joy at hearing the news.
Who acts: innkeeper · What happens: lose, tell, thunderstruck, suppress, hear, joy · To what, where: Mandarin, joy, news · 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 (innkeeper), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 lost | nsubj |
| 2 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lost | obj |
| 5 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 6 telling | mark |
| 6 | telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 lost | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Mandarin | det |
| 8 | Mandarin | Mandarin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 telling | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 thunderstruck | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 thunderstruck | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 thunderstruck | aux:pass |
| 12 | thunderstruck | thunderstruck | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 Mandarin | acl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 amazement | case |
| 14 | amazement | amazement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 thunderstruck | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 suppress | cc |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 suppress | nsubj |
| 17 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 suppress | aux |
| 18 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 19 suppress | advmod |
| 19 | suppress | suppress | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 thunderstruck | conj |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 joy | nmod:poss |
| 21 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 suppress | obj |
| 22 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 23 hearing | mark |
| 23 | hearing | hear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 suppress | advcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 news | det |
| 25 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hearing | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past | innkeeper | time | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | gerund | innkeeper not said here | the Mandarin | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mandarin=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | thunderstruck | past · passive | the Mandarin | with amazement | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | suppress | could | innkeeper's joy | who nsubj; scarcely property | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent joy=Patient | ||||
| 5 | hear | gerund | the news | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer news=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | joy | innkeeper | nom joy «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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