Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9, sentence 161
Before reaching the shrine of Ro-Ja, Yeng-Si related to her son, while they were passing by the grove of bamboo, which figures so conspicuously in our story, under what pitiful circumstances he had been born.
Who acts: Yeng, Ja, bamboo, pitiful circumstances · What happens: reach, relate, pass, figure, bear · To what, where: shrine, story, son
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, Ja, bamboo, pitiful circumstances), 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 | Before | before | SCONJ | _ | 2 reaching | mark |
| 2 | reaching | reach | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 related | advcl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 shrine | det |
| 4 | shrine | shrine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 reaching | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Ro | case |
| 6 | Ro | Ro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 shrine | nmod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Ja | punct |
| 8 | Ja | Ja | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Ro | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 reaching | punct |
| 10 | Yeng | Yeng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 related | nsubj |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 Si | punct |
| 12 | Si | Si | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Yeng | flat |
| 13 | related | relate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 son | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 son | nmod:poss |
| 16 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 related | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 passing | punct |
| 18 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 21 passing | mark |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 passing | nsubj |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 passing | aux |
| 21 | passing | pass | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 related | advcl |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 grove | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 grove | det |
| 24 | grove | grove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 passing | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 bamboo | case |
| 26 | bamboo | bamboo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 grove | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 figures | punct |
| 28 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 figures | nsubj |
| 29 | figures | figure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 bamboo | acl:relcl |
| 30 | so | so | ADV | _ | 31 conspicuously | advmod |
| 31 | conspicuously | conspicuously | ADV | _ | 29 figures | advmod |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 story | case |
| 33 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 story | nmod:poss |
| 34 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 figures | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 what | punct |
| 36 | under | under | ADP | _ | 37 what | case |
| 37 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 21 passing | obl |
| 38 | pitiful | pitiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 circumstances | amod |
| 39 | circumstances | circumstance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 what | nsubj |
| 40 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 born | nsubj:pass |
| 41 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 born | aux |
| 42 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 43 born | aux:pass |
| 43 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 39 circumstances | acl:relcl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 related | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | gerund | Yeng not said here | the shrine of Ro and Ja | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent shrine=Theme | ||||
| 2 | relate | past | Yeng | to Yeng's son | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to son=Co-Theme | ||||
| 3 | pass | past · progressive | Ja | by the grove of bamboo; what pitiful circumstances obl | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by grove=Location | ||||
| 4 | figure | present | bamboo | our story | conspicuously property | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||
| 5 | bear | past · perfect · passive | pitiful circumstances not said here | son | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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