Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9, sentence 37
So it came to pass that Yeng-Si and Yeng-So-Yei set out together for the Capital.
Who acts: fortune, Yei · What happens: come, pass, set out · To what, where: Yeng Si
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 (fortune, Yei), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 pass | mark |
| 5 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 came | xcomp |
| 6 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 Si | det |
| 7 | Yeng | Yeng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Si | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Yeng | punct |
| 9 | Si | Si | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 pass | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 Yeng | cc |
| 11 | Yeng | Yeng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Si | conj |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 set | punct |
| 13 | So | so | ADV | _ | 16 set | advmod |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 Yei | punct |
| 15 | Yei | Yei | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 set | nsubj |
| 16 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 Si | acl:relcl |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 set | compound:prt |
| 18 | together | together | ADV | _ | 16 set | advmod |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 Capital | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Capital | det |
| 21 | Capital | Capital | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 set | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | fortune | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | pass | to-infinitive | fortune not said here | that Yeng Si and Yeng | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme si=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | set out | past | Yei | that Yeng Si and Yeng not said here | for the Capital; together property | 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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