Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9, sentence 143
Meantime, the town officials had rushed to the prison where they surrounded San-Syeng and paid him their homage.
Who acts: San · What happens: rush, surround, pay · To what, where: Meantime, prison, officials, San
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 (San), 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 | Meantime | meantime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rushed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Meantime | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 officials | det |
| 4 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 officials | compound |
| 5 | officials | official | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 rushed | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 rushed | aux |
| 7 | rushed | rush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 prison | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 prison | det |
| 10 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rushed | obl |
| 11 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 surrounded | advmod |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 surrounded | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 prison | acl |
| 14 | San | San | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 surrounded | obl:agent |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 San | punct |
| 16 | Syeng | Syeng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 San | flat |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 paid | cc |
| 18 | paid | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 rushed | conj |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 paid | obj |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 homage | nmod:poss |
| 21 | homage | homage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 paid | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 rushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rush | past · perfect · passive | Meantime | the prison | the town officials nsubj | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme to prison=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | surround | participle · passive | San | officials = official | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme | ||||
| 3 | pay | past | San | officials's homage obj | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient homage=Asset |
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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