Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9, sentence 114

He joined one of the inmates in a loud protest for some light--the inevitable result of which would be to bring the jailer, who indeed did come running to see what their outcries portended.

Who acts: man, jailer, outcries, inmates · What happens: join, bring, come, run, see, portend · To what, where: one, loud protest, jailer

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 (man, jailer, outcries, inmates), 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	2 joined	nsubj
2	joined	join	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 joined	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 inmates	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 inmates	det
6	inmates	inmate	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 one	nmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 protest	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 protest	det
9	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 protest	amod
10	protest	protest	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 joined	obl
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 light	case
12	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	13 light	det
13	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 joined	obl
14	--	--	PUNCT	_	17 result	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 result	det
16	inevitable	inevitable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 result	amod
17	result	result	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 light	nmod
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 which	case
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 be	obl
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 be	aux
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 result	acl:relcl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 bring	mark
23	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 be	xcomp
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 jailer	det
25	jailer	jailer	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bring	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 come	punct
27	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 come	nsubj
28	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	30 come	advmod
29	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 come	aux
30	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 jailer	acl:relcl
31	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 come	xcomp
32	to	to	PART	_	33 see	mark
33	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 running	xcomp
34	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	33 see	obj
35	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 outcries	nmod:poss
36	outcries	outcry	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 portended	nsubj
37	portended	portend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 what	acl:relcl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 joined	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	join	past	man	one of the inmates	a loud protest	for some light the inevitable result	vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
2	bring	to-infinitive	man not said here	the jailer			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent jailer=Theme
3	come	past · do-support	the jailer			indeed property	tree rules
4	run	gerund	the jailer not said here				vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	see	to-infinitive	the jailer not said here			what obj	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
6	portend	participle	inmates's outcries				tree rules
7	outcry		inmates = inmate				nom outcry «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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 114

The tree

Pragmatics

Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9, sentence 114