Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9, sentence 87
When but a short distance from the town of Yen-Yu where his wife dwelt, the new General learned that the place had been given over to revolt and pillage.
Who acts: wife, new General · What happens: dwell, learn, give over, revolt · To what, where: place · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (wife, new General), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 distance | cc |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 distance | det |
| 4 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 distance | amod |
| 5 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 When | conj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 town | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 town | det |
| 8 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 distance | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Yen | case |
| 10 | Yen | Yen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 town | nmod |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 Yu | punct |
| 12 | Yu | Yu | PROPN | _ | 10 Yen | conj |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 dwelt | advmod |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 wife | nmod:poss |
| 15 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 dwelt | nsubj |
| 16 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 town | acl:relcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 learned | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 General | det |
| 19 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 General | amod |
| 20 | General | General | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 learned | nsubj |
| 21 | learned | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 distance | conj |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 given | mark |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 place | det |
| 24 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 given | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 given | aux |
| 26 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 27 given | aux:pass |
| 27 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 learned | ccomp |
| 28 | over | over | ADP | _ | 27 given | compound:prt |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 revolt | mark |
| 30 | revolt | revolt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 given | advcl |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 pillage | cc |
| 32 | pillage | pillage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 revolt | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 When | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dwell | past | man's wife | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | learn | past | the new General | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | give over | past · perfect · passive | the place | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | revolt | to-infinitive | pillage conj | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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