Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9, sentence 94

He learned that Yeng-So-Yei’s mother was dead and that the orphan, when the fire broke out, had fled and no one could tell whither she had gone.

Who acts: task, mother, fire, orphan, one · What happens: learn, be, break out, flee, tell, go · 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 (task, mother, fire, orphan), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 learned	nsubj
2	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 dead	mark
4	Yeng	Yeng	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 mother	nmod:poss
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 Yeng	punct
6	So	so	ADV	_	8 Yei	advmod
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 Yei	punct
8	Yei	Yei	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Yeng	nmod
9	’s	's	PART	_	4 Yeng	case
10	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 dead	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 dead	cop
12	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 learned	ccomp
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 fled	cc
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 fled	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 orphan	det
16	orphan	orphan	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 fled	nsubj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 broke	punct
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 broke	advmod
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 fire	det
20	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 broke	nsubj
21	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 orphan	acl
22	out	out	ADP	_	21 broke	compound:prt
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 orphan	punct
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 fled	aux
25	fled	flee	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 dead	conj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 tell	cc
27	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	28 one	det
28	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 tell	nsubj
29	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 tell	aux
30	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 learned	conj
31	whither	whither	ADV	PronType=Int	34 gone	advmod
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 gone	nsubj
33	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 gone	aux
34	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 tell	ccomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 learned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	learn	past	task		vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	Yeng Yei's mother	dead property	tree rules
3	break out	past	the fire		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
4	flee	past · perfect	the orphan		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	tell speech: assert	could	no one		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	go	past · perfect	fire	whither property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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🌲 Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9, sentence 94

The tree

Pragmatics

Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9, sentence 94