Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9, sentence 59
It can be readily imagined that the two women were greatly astonished to see the young man discover in their rooms, as if by magic, the jewels which he claimed had been stolen from him.
Who acts: two women, jewels · What happens: imagine, be, see, discover, claim, steal · To what, where: same, young man, rooms, jewels
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 (two women, jewels), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 imagined | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 imagined | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 imagined | aux:pass |
| 4 | readily | readily | ADV | _ | 5 imagined | advmod |
| 5 | imagined | imagine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 discover | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 women | det |
| 8 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 women | nummod |
| 9 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 discover | nsubj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 astonished | cop |
| 11 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 12 astonished | advmod |
| 12 | astonished | astonished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 women | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 see | mark |
| 14 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 astonished | xcomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 man | det |
| 16 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 man | amod |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 see | obj |
| 18 | discover | discover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 imagined | conj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 rooms | case |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 rooms | nmod:poss |
| 21 | rooms | room | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 discover | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 magic | punct |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 26 magic | case |
| 24 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 26 magic | mark |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 magic | case |
| 26 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 discover | parataxis |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 jewels | punct |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 jewels | det |
| 29 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 stolen | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 claimed | nsubj |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 claimed | nsubj |
| 32 | claimed | claim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 jewels | acl:relcl |
| 33 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 stolen | aux |
| 34 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 35 stolen | aux:pass |
| 35 | stolen | steal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 magic | parataxis |
| 36 | from | from | ADP | _ | 37 him | case |
| 37 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 stolen | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 imagined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | imagine | can · passive | same | readily property | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the two women not said here | astonished, greatly property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | the two women not said here | the young man | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | discover | present | the two women | threats's rooms | magic parataxis | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||
| 5 | claim speech: other | past | the jewels | man nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | steal | past · perfect · passive | the jewels | from man | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from he=Source |
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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