Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9, sentence 76
Was it thus that they were to leave the world--one without having seen her son--the other without embracing her husband?
Who acts: servants · What happens: be, leave, see, embrace · To what, where: law, world, son, husband
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 (servants), 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 | Was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Was | obj |
| 3 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 1 Was | advmod |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 leave | mark |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 leave | nsubj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 leave | aux |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 leave | mark |
| 8 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 thus | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 world | det |
| 10 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 leave | obj |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 one | punct |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 world | appos |
| 13 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 15 seen | mark |
| 14 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 seen | aux |
| 15 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 one | advcl |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 son | nmod:poss |
| 17 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 seen | obj |
| 18 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 20 other | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 other | det |
| 20 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 son | amod |
| 21 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 22 embracing | mark |
| 22 | embracing | embrace | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 other | advcl |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 husband | nmod:poss |
| 24 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 embracing | obj |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | law | thus property | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | leave | past | servants = servant | the world | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent world=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | gerund · perfect | servants = servant not said here | Yeng's son | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer son=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | embrace | gerund | servants = servant not said here | Yeng's husband | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Co-Agent |
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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