Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9, sentence 63
He had been impressed by the singular beauty of Yeng-So-Yei, but gave no visible evidence of it, and committed the two women to prison.
Who acts: singular beauty · What happens: impress, give, commit, evidence · To what, where: man, visible evidence, two women, prison, evidence
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 (singular beauty), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 impressed | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 impressed | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 impressed | aux:pass |
| 4 | impressed | impress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 beauty | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 beauty | det |
| 7 | singular | singular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 beauty | amod |
| 8 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 impressed | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Yeng | case |
| 10 | Yeng | Yeng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 beauty | nmod |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 Yei | punct |
| 12 | So | so | ADV | _ | 14 Yei | advmod |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 Yei | punct |
| 14 | Yei | Yei | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Yeng | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 gave | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 gave | cc |
| 17 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 impressed | conj |
| 18 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 20 evidence | det |
| 19 | visible | visible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 evidence | amod |
| 20 | evidence | evidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 gave | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 it | case |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 evidence | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 committed | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 committed | cc |
| 25 | committed | commit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 gave | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 women | det |
| 27 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 women | nummod |
| 28 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 committed | obj |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 prison | case |
| 30 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 committed | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 impressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | impress | past · perfect · passive | the singular beauty of Yeng and Yei | man | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | give | past | the singular beauty of Yeng and Yei not said here | no visible evidence of evidence | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent evidence=Theme | ||||
| 3 | commit | past | the singular beauty of Yeng and Yei not said here | the two women | prison | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent woman=Theme to prison=Destination | |||
| 4 | evidence | evidence | nom evidence «cognition 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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