Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8, sentence 75
For an entire day they were obliged to march with this equipment.
What happens: oblige, march · 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: 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 day | case |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 3 | entire | entire | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 day | amod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 obliged | obl |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 obliged | nsubj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 obliged | aux:pass |
| 7 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 march | mark |
| 9 | march | march | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 obliged | xcomp |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 equipment | case |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 equipment | det |
| 12 | equipment | equipment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 march | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 obliged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | oblige | past · passive | men = man | day | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result | ||||
| 2 | march | to-infinitive | with this equipment | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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