Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8, sentence 74
To toughen his men, he made them attach small, but heavy, bags of sand to their legs.
Who acts: San, men · What happens: toughen, make, attach · To what, where: men
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 (San, men), 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 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 toughen | mark |
| 2 | toughen | toughen | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 men | nmod:poss |
| 4 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 toughen | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 made | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 made | nsubj |
| 7 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 toughen | advcl |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 made | obj |
| 9 | attach | attach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 made | xcomp |
| 10 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 attach | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 bags | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 bags | cc |
| 13 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 bags | amod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 heavy | punct |
| 15 | bags | bag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 toughen | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 sand | case |
| 17 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bags | nmod |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 legs | case |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 legs | nmod:poss |
| 20 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 toughen | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 toughen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | toughen | to-infinitive | San's men | to bags's legs; heavy bags of sand obl | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent man=Patient | ||||
| 2 | make | past | San | men = man | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | attach | infinitive | men = man not said here | small property | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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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