Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9, sentence 64
A few moments after, he had word brought to them that if Yeng-So-Yei would consent to marry him, no mention would ever be made of the theft.
Who acts: few moments, Yei, word · What happens: have, bring, consent, marry, make · To what, where: word, words, man, mention
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 (few moments, Yei, word), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 moments | det |
| 2 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 moments | amod |
| 3 | moments | moment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 had | nsubj |
| 4 | after | after | ADV | _ | 3 moments | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 moments | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 had | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | obj |
| 9 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 word | acl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 them | case |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 brought | obl |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 consent | mark |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 consent | mark |
| 14 | Yeng | Yeng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 consent | vocative |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 Yeng | punct |
| 16 | So | so | ADV | _ | 20 consent | advmod |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 Yei | punct |
| 18 | Yei | Yei | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 consent | nsubj |
| 19 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 consent | aux |
| 20 | consent | consent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 brought | advcl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 marry | mark |
| 22 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 consent | xcomp |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 marry | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 made | punct |
| 25 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 26 mention | det |
| 26 | mention | mention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 made | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 made | aux |
| 28 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 30 made | advmod |
| 29 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 made | aux:pass |
| 30 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 word | acl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 theft | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 theft | det |
| 33 | theft | theft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 made | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | a few moments | word | man nsubj | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient | |||
| 2 | bring | participle | word not said here | words = word | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to they=Destination | ||||
| 3 | consent | would | Yei | Yeng vocative | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | marry | to-infinitive | Yei not said here | man | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 5 | make | would · passive | word not said here | no mention | ever | of the theft | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
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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