Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9, sentence 156
This suggestion was very pleasing to Yeng-Si and they started on their journey to the temple of Ro-Ja.
Who acts: suggestion, Ou · What happens: be, start, journey · To what, where: Yeng, journey
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 (suggestion, Ou), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 suggestion | det |
| 2 | suggestion | suggestion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pleasing | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pleasing | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 pleasing | advmod |
| 5 | pleasing | pleasing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Yeng | case |
| 7 | Yeng | Yeng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 pleasing | obl |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Yeng | punct |
| 9 | Si | Si | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Yeng | flat |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 started | cc |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 started | nsubj |
| 12 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pleasing | conj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 journey | case |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 journey | nmod:poss |
| 15 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 started | obl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 temple | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 temple | det |
| 18 | temple | temple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 started | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Ro | case |
| 20 | Ro | Ro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 temple | nmod |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 Ja | punct |
| 22 | Ja | Ja | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Ro | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 pleasing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | this suggestion | Yeng | pleasing property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | start | past | Ou | Ou's journey | to the temple of Ro and Ja | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | journey | Ou | nom journey «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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