Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9, sentence 36
But Ou-Pung was the first to suggest that Yeng-Si leave with her daughter-in-law for she was happy at the good fortune which had come to her deserving companion.
Who acts: Ou, Yeng, good fortune · What happens: be, suggest, leave, come, deserve · To what, where: law, good fortune, deserving companion
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 (Ou, Yeng, good fortune), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 first | cc |
| 2 | Ou | Ou | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 first | nsubj |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Pung | punct |
| 4 | Pung | Pung | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Ou | conj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 first | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 first | det |
| 7 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 suggest | mark |
| 9 | suggest | suggest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 first | acl |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 leave | mark |
| 11 | Yeng | Yeng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 leave | nsubj |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 Yeng | punct |
| 13 | Si | Si | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Yeng | flat |
| 14 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 suggest | advcl |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 law | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 law | nmod:poss |
| 17 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 law | nsubj |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 law | punct |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 law | case |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 in | punct |
| 21 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 leave | obl |
| 22 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 25 happy | mark |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 happy | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 happy | cop |
| 25 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 law | acl |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 fortune | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 fortune | det |
| 28 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 fortune | amod |
| 29 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 happy | obl |
| 30 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 come | nsubj |
| 31 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 come | aux |
| 32 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 29 fortune | acl:relcl |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 companion | case |
| 34 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 companion | nmod:poss |
| 35 | deserving | deserve | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 36 companion | amod |
| 36 | companion | companion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 come | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 first | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Ou and Pung | first property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | suggest speech: suggest | to-infinitive | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | leave | present | Yeng | with Yeng's law daughter | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent with law=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | past | Yeng | Yeng's law daughter not said here | the good fortune | happy property | tree rules | ||
| 5 | come | past · perfect | the good fortune | Yeng's deserving companion | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to companion=Initial_Location | ||||
| 6 | deserve | gerund | tree rules |
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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