Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9, sentence 93
His orderly, who accompanied him, endeavored to console him, but in vain, and was at last obliged to lead his master away from the heap of charred embers and ashes.
What happens: accompany, endeavor, oblige, lead, char · To what, where: task, console, master
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: 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 | 2 orderly | nmod:poss |
| 2 | orderly | orderly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 accompanied | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 accompanied | nsubj |
| 5 | accompanied | accompany | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 orderly | parataxis |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 accompanied | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 endeavored | punct |
| 8 | endeavored | endeavor | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 accompanied | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 console | mark |
| 10 | console | console | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 endeavored | obj |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 console | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 vain | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 vain | cc |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 vain | case |
| 15 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 orderly | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 obliged | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 obliged | cc |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 obliged | aux:pass |
| 19 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 21 obliged | mark |
| 20 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 obliged | amod |
| 21 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 orderly | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 lead | mark |
| 23 | lead | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 obliged | advcl |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 master | nmod:poss |
| 25 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 lead | obj |
| 26 | away | away | ADV | _ | 23 lead | advmod |
| 27 | from | from | ADP | _ | 29 heap | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 heap | det |
| 29 | heap | heap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 away | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 embers | case |
| 31 | charred | char | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 embers | amod |
| 32 | embers | ember | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 heap | nmod |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 ashes | cc |
| 34 | ashes | ash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 embers | conj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 orderly | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accompany | past | task | who nsubj | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | endeavor | past | console task | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | oblige | past · passive | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP» | ||||||
| 4 | lead | to-infinitive | task's master | away property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent master=Theme | ||||
| 5 | char | participle | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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