Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9, sentence 108
The young man ran to the prison where, of course, he found it impossible to enter, so he had recourse to a wise little trick.
Who acts: young man, man, course · What happens: run, find, enter, have · To what, where: course, recourse
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 (young man, man, course), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ran | nsubj |
| 4 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 prison | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 prison | det |
| 7 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ran | obl |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 7 prison | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 course | punct |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 course | case |
| 11 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ran | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 found | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 found | nsubj |
| 14 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ran | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 found | obj |
| 16 | impossible | impossible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 found | xcomp |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 enter | mark |
| 18 | enter | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 impossible | xcomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 had | punct |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 had | advmod |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 had | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ran | conj |
| 23 | recourse | recourse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 had | obj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 trick | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 trick | det |
| 26 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 trick | amod |
| 27 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 trick | amod |
| 28 | trick | trick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 had | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | the young man | to the prison result; of course | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to prison=Result | ||||
| 2 | find | past | man | course | impossible property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | |||
| 3 | enter | to-infinitive | course not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | have | past | man | recourse | to a wise little trick | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent recourse=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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