Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9, sentence 20
“I put it on so as to be able to travel with more security.”
Who acts: Yeng · What happens: put on, be, travel · To what, where: costume
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), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 put | nsubj |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 put | obj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 3 put | compound:prt |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 able | advmod |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 able | mark |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 able | mark |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 able | cop |
| 10 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 put | advcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 travel | mark |
| 12 | travel | travel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 able | xcomp |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 security | case |
| 14 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 security | amod |
| 15 | security | security | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 travel | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put on in a quote | past | Yeng | costume | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | to-infinitive | Yeng not said here | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | travel in a quote | to-infinitive | Yeng not said here | with more security | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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