Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, sentence 146
So Cheng-Si told her father of her adventures from the time of her embarkation on the merchant’s vessel up to her arrival at the Capital with the King.
Who acts: Cheng, daughter · What happens: tell up, adventure, arrive · To what, where: father, vessel, Capital
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 (Cheng, daughter), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 told | advmod |
| 2 | Cheng | Cheng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 told | nsubj |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Cheng | punct |
| 4 | Si | Si | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Cheng | flat |
| 5 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 father | nmod:poss |
| 7 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 told | iobj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 adventures | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 adventures | nmod:poss |
| 10 | adventures | adventure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 father | nmod |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 time | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 time | det |
| 13 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 told | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 embarkation | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 embarkation | nmod:poss |
| 16 | embarkation | embarkation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 time | nmod |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 vessel | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 merchant | det |
| 19 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 vessel | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 19 merchant | case |
| 21 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 told | obl |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 told | compound:prt |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 arrival | case |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 arrival | nmod:poss |
| 25 | arrival | arrival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 told | obl |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 Capital | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Capital | det |
| 28 | Capital | Capital | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 arrival | nmod |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 King | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 King | det |
| 31 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 arrival | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell up speech: assert | past | Cheng | daughter's father of daughter's adventures | the merchant's vessel | time | to daughter's arrival at the Capital with the King | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent father=Topic to arrival=Recipient | |
| 2 | adventure | daughter | nom adventure «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 3 | arrive | daughter | the Capital | with the King | nom arrival «act intransitive»: poss=agent at=place with=obl |
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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