Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9, sentence 110
He was soon caught, arrested, and thrown into prison.
What happens: catch, arrest, throw · To what, where: man, prison
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: 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 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 caught | aux:pass |
| 3 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 caught | advmod |
| 4 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 arrested | punct |
| 6 | arrested | arrest | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 caught | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 thrown | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 thrown | cc |
| 9 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 caught | conj |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 prison | case |
| 11 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 thrown | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past · passive | man | soon property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | arrest | participle | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | throw | participle | into prison result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer into prison=Result |
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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