Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8, sentence 79
San-Syeng stationed his troops in a cordon about the city with orders to let no one--no matter who it might be--leave or enter the town.
Who acts: San · What happens: station, let, leave, enter · To what, where: troops, cordon, one, town
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), 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 | San | San | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 stationed | nsubj |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 San | punct |
| 3 | Syeng | Syeng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 San | flat |
| 4 | stationed | station | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 troops | nmod:poss |
| 6 | troops | troops | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 4 stationed | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 cordon | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 cordon | det |
| 9 | cordon | cordon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stationed | obl |
| 10 | about | about | ADP | _ | 12 city | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 city | det |
| 12 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cordon | nmod |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 orders | case |
| 14 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 city | nmod |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 let | mark |
| 16 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 stationed | advcl |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 one | det |
| 18 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 let | obj |
| 19 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 21 matter | punct |
| 20 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 21 matter | det |
| 21 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 one | appos |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 be | nsubj |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 be | nsubj |
| 24 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 be | aux |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 matter | acl:relcl |
| 26 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 27 leave | punct |
| 27 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 let | conj |
| 28 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 29 enter | cc |
| 29 | enter | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 let | conj |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 town | det |
| 31 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 enter | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stationed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | station | past | San | San's troops | a cordon about the city with orders | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent troops=Theme in cordon=Destination | |||
| 2 | let | to-infinitive | San not said here | no one | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | ||||
| 3 | leave | infinitive | San not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | enter | infinitive | San not said here | the town | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme town=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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