Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9, sentence 95
San-Syeng naturally determined to travel in search of his wife, but his body was tired and weary and he resolved to indulge in the luxury of a short nap before leaving the town.
Who acts: body, task · What happens: travel, be, resolve, indulge, leave, search · To what, where: search, luxury, town, wife
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 (body, task), 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 | San | San | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 determined | nsubj |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 San | punct |
| 3 | Syeng | Syeng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 San | flat |
| 4 | naturally | naturally | ADV | _ | 5 determined | advmod |
| 5 | determined | determined | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 travel | mark |
| 7 | travel | travel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 determined | xcomp |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 search | case |
| 9 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 travel | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 wife | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 wife | nmod:poss |
| 12 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 search | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 tired | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 tired | cc |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 body | nmod:poss |
| 16 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 tired | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 tired | cop |
| 18 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 determined | parataxis |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 weary | cc |
| 20 | weary | weary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 tired | conj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 resolved | cc |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 resolved | nsubj |
| 23 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 tired | conj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 indulge | mark |
| 25 | indulge | indulge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 resolved | xcomp |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 luxury | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 luxury | det |
| 28 | luxury | luxury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 indulge | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 nap | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 nap | det |
| 31 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 nap | amod |
| 32 | nap | nap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 luxury | nmod |
| 33 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 34 leaving | mark |
| 34 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 indulge | advcl |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 town | det |
| 36 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 leaving | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 determined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travel | to-infinitive | search of task's wife | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in search=Trajectory | |||||
| 2 | is | past | task's body | tired property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | task's body not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | resolve | past | task | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | indulge | to-infinitive | task not said here | the luxury of a short nap | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | leave | gerund | task not said here | the town | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent town=Theme | ||||
| 8 | search | task's wife | nom search «act transitive»: of=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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