Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9, sentence 144
At their urging, San-Houni’s son left the prison and betook himself to the town-hall.
Who acts: son, officials · What happens: leave, betake, urge · To what, where: prison, urging, 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 (son, officials), 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 | _ | 3 urging | case |
| 2 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 urging | nmod:poss |
| 3 | urging | urging | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 left | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 urging | punct |
| 5 | San | San | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 son | nmod:poss |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 San | punct |
| 7 | Houni | Houni | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 San | flat |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 San | case |
| 9 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 left | nsubj |
| 10 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 prison | det |
| 12 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 left | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 betook | cc |
| 14 | betook | betake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 left | conj |
| 15 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 betook | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 hall | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 hall | det |
| 18 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hall | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 town | punct |
| 20 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 betook | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | San's son | the prison | officials's urging | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent prison=Theme at urging=Location | |||
| 2 | betake | past | San's son not said here | San | to the town hall | tree rules | |||
| 3 | urge | officials = official | nom urging «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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