Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9, sentence 129
Yeng-Si told him of the many sad experiences she had undergone since her departure into exile with San-Houni up to her arrest and condemnation to death by the Mandarin of San-Jon.
Who acts: Yeng, Mandarin · What happens: tell, undergo, depart, arrest · To what, where: San, Yeng, exile · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Yeng, Mandarin), 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 | Yeng | Yeng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 told | nsubj |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Si | punct |
| 3 | Si | Si | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Yeng | flat |
| 4 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 told | iobj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 experiences | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 experiences | det |
| 8 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 experiences | amod |
| 9 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 experiences | amod |
| 10 | experiences | experience | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 undergone | obl |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 undergone | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 undergone | aux |
| 13 | undergone | undergo | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 told | ccomp |
| 14 | since | since | ADP | _ | 16 departure | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 departure | nmod:poss |
| 16 | departure | departure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 undergone | obl |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 exile | case |
| 18 | exile | exile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 undergone | obl |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 San | case |
| 20 | San | San | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 exile | nmod |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 Houni | punct |
| 22 | Houni | Houni | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 San | flat |
| 23 | up | up | ADP | _ | 26 arrest | case |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 arrest | case |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 arrest | nmod:poss |
| 26 | arrest | arrest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 undergone | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 condemnation | cc |
| 28 | condemnation | condemnation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 arrest | conj |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 death | case |
| 30 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 condemnation | nmod |
| 31 | by | by | ADP | _ | 33 Mandarin | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Mandarin | det |
| 33 | Mandarin | Mandarin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 undergone | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 San | case |
| 35 | San | San | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Mandarin | nmod |
| 36 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 37 Jon | punct |
| 37 | Jon | Jon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 San | flat |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | Yeng | San | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | undergo | past · perfect · passive | the Mandarin of San | Yeng | exile with San | since Yeng's departure | of the many sad experiences; up Yeng's arrest and condemnation to death | tree rules | |
| 3 | depart | Yeng | nom departure «act intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 4 | arrest | Yeng | nom arrest «act 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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