Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9, sentence 86
His adorable Yeng-So-Yei obviously had the first claim to his attention, and he set out with haste to see her.
Who acts: adorable Yeng, man · What happens: have, set out, see, attend · To what, where: first claim, Yeng
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 (adorable Yeng, man), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 Yeng | nmod:poss |
| 2 | adorable | adorable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Yeng | amod |
| 3 | Yeng | Yeng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 had | nsubj |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Yeng | punct |
| 5 | So | so | ADV | _ | 9 had | advmod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Yei | punct |
| 7 | Yei | Yei | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 had | nsubj |
| 8 | obviously | obviously | ADV | _ | 9 had | advmod |
| 9 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 claim | det |
| 11 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 claim | amod |
| 12 | claim | claim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 had | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 attention | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 attention | nmod:poss |
| 15 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 claim | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 set | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 set | cc |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 set | nsubj |
| 19 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 had | conj |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 set | compound:prt |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 haste | case |
| 22 | haste | haste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 set | obl |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 see | mark |
| 24 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 set | advcl |
| 25 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 see | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | man's adorable Yeng | the first claim | to man's attention; Yei nsubj; obviously property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claim=Patient | |||
| 2 | set out | past | man | with haste | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | man not said here | Yeng | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | attend | man | nom attention «cognition intransitive»: poss=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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