Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9, sentence 47
She told Yeng-So-Yei of the sublime devotion of the woman, who had enabled her to escape from the hands of Su-Rung.
Who acts: friend, woman · What happens: tell, enable, escape, devote · To what, where: Yei, Yeng, friend, hands, woman · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (friend, woman), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 told | nsubj |
| 2 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Yeng | Yeng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 told | iobj |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Yeng | punct |
| 5 | So | so | ADV | _ | 7 Yei | advmod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Yei | punct |
| 7 | Yei | Yei | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 told | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 devotion | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 devotion | det |
| 10 | sublime | sublime | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 devotion | amod |
| 11 | devotion | devotion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Yei | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 woman | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 woman | det |
| 14 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 devotion | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 enabled | punct |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 enabled | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 enabled | aux |
| 18 | enabled | enable | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 woman | acl:relcl |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 enabled | obj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 escape | mark |
| 21 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 enabled | advcl |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 hands | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 hands | det |
| 24 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 escape | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Rung | case |
| 26 | Su | Su | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Rung | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 Su | punct |
| 28 | Rung | Rung | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 hands | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | friend | Yei of the sublime devotion of the woman | Yeng | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent yeng=Recipient | |||
| 2 | enable | past · perfect | the woman | friend | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | escape | to-infinitive | the woman not said here | the hands of Su Rung | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from hand=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | devote | the woman | nom devotion «feeling transitive»: of=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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