Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9, sentence 90
This task accomplished, San-Syeng made pleasant preparations to surprise Yeng-So-Yei by his home-coming.
Who acts: task, San · What happens: accomplish, make, surprise, come · To what, where: pleasant preparations, 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 (task, San), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 task | det |
| 2 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 accomplished | nsubj |
| 3 | accomplished | accomplish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 made | punct |
| 5 | San | San | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 made | nsubj |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Syeng | punct |
| 7 | Syeng | Syeng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 San | flat |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 accomplished | conj |
| 9 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 preparations | amod |
| 10 | preparations | preparation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 made | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 surprise | mark |
| 12 | surprise | surprise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 preparations | acl |
| 13 | Yeng | Yeng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 surprise | obj |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 Yeng | punct |
| 15 | So | so | ADV | _ | 17 Yei | advmod |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 Yei | punct |
| 17 | Yei | Yei | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Yeng | nmod |
| 18 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 22 coming | mark |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Gender=Masc Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 coming | nsubj |
| 20 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 coming | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 home | punct |
| 22 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 surprise | advcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 accomplished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accomplish | past | this task | vn complete-55.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | make | past | San | pleasant preparations | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent preparation=Product | ||||
| 3 | surprise | to-infinitive | San not said here | Yeng Yei | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus yeng=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | come | gerund | San | home compound | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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