Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9, sentence 151
San-Syeng, his cup overflowing with happiness at having found his mother and his wife at one and the same time, desired to be told about his father, and, at his urgent request, Yeng-Si, with tears in her eyes and a faltering voice, related to him the misfortunes of San-Houni.
Who acts: cup, San · What happens: overflow, find, desire, tell, falter, request · To what, where: mother, San · 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 (cup, 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 | San | San | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Syeng | punct |
| 3 | Syeng | Syeng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 San | flat |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 cup | punct |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 cup | nmod:poss |
| 6 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 San | parataxis |
| 7 | overflowing | overflow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 cup | acl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 happiness | case |
| 9 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 overflowing | obl |
| 10 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 12 found | mark |
| 11 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 found | aux |
| 12 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 overflowing | advcl |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 mother | nmod:poss |
| 14 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 found | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 wife | cc |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 wife | nmod:poss |
| 17 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 mother | conj |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 one | case |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 found | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 time | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 time | det |
| 22 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 time | amod |
| 23 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 one | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 desired | punct |
| 25 | desired | desire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 found | conj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 told | mark |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 told | aux:pass |
| 28 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 desired | xcomp |
| 29 | about | about | ADP | _ | 31 father | case |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 father | nmod:poss |
| 31 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 told | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 San | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 request | cc |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 request | punct |
| 35 | at | at | ADP | _ | 38 request | case |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 request | nmod:poss |
| 37 | urgent | urgent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 request | amod |
| 38 | request | request | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 San | conj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 Yeng | punct |
| 40 | Yeng | Yeng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 San | nmod |
| 41 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 42 Si | punct |
| 42 | Si | Si | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 San | conj |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 tears | punct |
| 44 | with | with | ADP | _ | 45 tears | case |
| 45 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 San | nmod |
| 46 | in | in | ADP | _ | 48 eyes | case |
| 47 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 48 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 48 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 tears | nmod |
| 49 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 52 voice | cc |
| 50 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 52 voice | det |
| 51 | faltering | falter | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 52 voice | amod |
| 52 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 eyes | conj |
| 53 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 54 related | punct |
| 54 | related | related | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 eyes | amod |
| 55 | to | to | ADP | _ | 56 him | case |
| 56 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 54 related | obl |
| 57 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 58 misfortunes | det |
| 58 | misfortunes | misfortune | NOUN | Number=Plur | 54 related | nsubj |
| 59 | of | of | ADP | _ | 60 San | case |
| 60 | San | San | PROPN | Number=Sing | 58 misfortunes | nmod |
| 61 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 62 Houni | punct |
| 62 | Houni | Houni | PROPN | Number=Sing | 60 San | flat |
| 63 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 San | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overflow | gerund | San's cup not said here | with happiness | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | find | gerund · perfect | San's cup not said here | San's mother and San's wife | at one and the same time | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent mother=Theme at one=Asset | |||
| 3 | desire | participle | San's cup not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | San's cup not said here | about San's father | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: about father=Topic | ||||
| 5 | falter | gerund | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 7 | request | San | nom request «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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