Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9, sentence 123

At daybreak, they were startled by the loud neighing of a horse and Yeng-So-Yei, who had gone to the narrow opening which served as a window to their cell, cried:

Who acts: Yei, narrow opening, Yeng · What happens: startle, neigh, go, serve, cry · To what, where: exactions, daybreak, narrow opening

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 (Yei, narrow opening, Yeng), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 daybreak	case
2	daybreak	daybreak	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 startled	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 daybreak	punct
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 startled	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 startled	aux:pass
6	startled	startle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 loud	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 loud	det
9	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 startled	xcomp
10	neighing	neigh	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 loud	advcl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 horse	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 horse	det
13	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 neighing	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 cried	cc
15	Yeng	Yeng	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 cried	nsubj
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 Yeng	punct
17	So	so	ADV	_	37 cried	advmod
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 Yei	punct
19	Yei	Yei	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 cried	nsubj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 gone	punct
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 gone	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 gone	aux
23	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 Yei	acl
24	to	to	ADP	_	27 opening	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 opening	det
26	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 opening	amod
27	opening	opening	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 gone	obl
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 served	nsubj
29	served	serve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 opening	acl:relcl
30	as	as	ADP	_	32 window	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 window	det
32	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 served	obl
33	to	to	ADP	_	35 cell	case
34	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 cell	nmod:poss
35	cell	cell	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 served	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Yei	punct
37	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 startled	conj
38	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 startled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	startle	past · passive		exactions = exaction	daybreak	loud property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	neigh	gerund				of a horse	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	go	past · perfect	Yei		the narrow opening		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to opening=Initial_Location
4	serve	past	the narrow opening			as a window; to exactions's cell	vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as window=Attribute
5	cry speech: express	past	Yeng			Yei nsubj	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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 123

The tree

Pragmatics

Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9, sentence 123