Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9, sentence 134
“Yeng-So-Yei was my wife’s name; she lived in the village of Yen-Yu, but I found her home burned to the ground.”
Who acts: Yeng, Yei · What happens: be, live, find, burn · To what, where: name, village · 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, Yei), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 name | punct |
| 2 | Yeng | Yeng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 name | nsubj |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yeng | punct |
| 4 | So | so | ADV | _ | 11 name | advmod |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Yei | punct |
| 6 | Yei | Yei | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 name | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 name | cop |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 wife | nmod:poss |
| 9 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 name | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 wife | case |
| 11 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 lived | punct |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 lived | nsubj |
| 14 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 name | parataxis |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 village | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 village | det |
| 17 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lived | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Yen | case |
| 19 | Yen | Yen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 village | nmod |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 Yu | punct |
| 21 | Yu | Yu | PROPN | _ | 19 Yen | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 found | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 found | cc |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 found | nsubj |
| 25 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 lived | conj |
| 26 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 burned | nsubj |
| 27 | home | home | ADV | _ | 28 burned | advmod |
| 28 | burned | burn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 found | ccomp |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 ground | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 ground | det |
| 31 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 burned | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 name | punct |
| 33 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 name | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | past | Yeng | my wife's name | Yei nsubj; my wife nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 2 | live in a quote | past | Yeng | the village of Yen and Yu | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in village=Location | ||||
| 3 | find in a quote | past | Yei | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | burn in a quote | past | Yeng | to the ground; home property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
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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