Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, sentence 118
At the request of Sun-Yen he was placed at a table by himself.
Who acts: Yen · What happens: place, request · To what, where: Yen, request, Sun Yen
This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Yen), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 request | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 request | det |
| 3 | request | request | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 placed | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Yen | case |
| 5 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Yen | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Sun | punct |
| 7 | Yen | Yen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 request | nmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 placed | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 placed | aux:pass |
| 10 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 table | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 table | det |
| 13 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 placed | obl |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 himself | case |
| 15 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 placed | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 placed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | place | past · passive | Yen | Yen | the request of Sun Yen | at a table | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme at request=Destination | ||
| 2 | request | Sun Yen | nom request «communication 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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