Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, sentence 158
He was exiled when you were, but he was murdered by Su-Rung, the thief, before reaching Ko-Kum-To.
Who acts: you, Su · What happens: exile, be, murder, reach · To what, where: father, Ko
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 (you, Su), 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 | 3 exiled | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 exiled | aux:pass |
| 3 | exiled | exile | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 were | advmod |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 were | nsubj |
| 6 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 exiled | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 murdered | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 murdered | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 murdered | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 murdered | aux:pass |
| 11 | murdered | murder | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 exiled | parataxis |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 Su | case |
| 13 | Su | Su | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 murdered | obl |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 Rung | punct |
| 15 | Rung | Rung | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Su | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 thief | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 thief | det |
| 18 | thief | thief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Su | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 reaching | punct |
| 20 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 21 reaching | mark |
| 21 | reaching | reach | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 murdered | advcl |
| 22 | Ko | Ko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 reaching | obj |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 Kum | punct |
| 24 | Kum | Kum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Ko | conj |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 To | punct |
| 26 | To | To | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Ko | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 exiled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exile | past · passive | father | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | be | past | you | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | murder | past · passive | Su and Rung and the thief | father | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | ||||
| 4 | reach | gerund | Su and Rung and the thief not said here | Ko and Kum and To | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent ko=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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