Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9, sentence 107

He was not long in learning that his mother and his wife, unjustly accused of theft, were in a prison cell and were to be put to death the very next morning.

Who acts: San · What happens: not be, learn, accuse, be, put · To what, where: mother, wife, prison cell

This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9. 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 long	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 long	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 long	advmod
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	in	in	SCONJ	_	6 learning	mark
6	learning	learn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 long	advcl
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 mother	mark
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 mother	nmod:poss
9	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 learning	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 wife	cc
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 wife	nmod:poss
12	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 mother	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 accused	punct
14	unjustly	unjustly	ADV	_	15 accused	advmod
15	accused	accuse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 wife	acl
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 theft	case
17	theft	theft	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 accused	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 cell	punct
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 cell	cop
20	in	in	ADP	_	23 cell	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 cell	det
22	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 cell	compound
23	cell	cell	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 long	conj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 put	cc
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 put	aux:pass
26	to	to	PART	_	28 put	mark
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 put	aux:pass
28	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 cell	conj
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 death	case
30	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 put	obl
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 morning	det
32	very	very	ADV	_	33 next	advmod
33	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 morning	amod
34	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 put	obl:unmarked
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 long	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	San				long property	tree rules
2	learn	gerund	San not said here	San's mother and San's wife				vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Topic
3	accuse	participle		San's wife not said here			of theft; unjustly property	vn suspect-81 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent of theft=Attribute
4	is	past	San not said here		a prison cell			tree rules
5	put	past · passive	San not said here			morning	to death	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»

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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🌲 Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9, sentence 107

The tree

Pragmatics

Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9, sentence 107