Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, sentence 161
San-Syeng’s eyes also moistened at the mention of the father whom he had never known.
Who acts: eyes · What happens: moisten, not know, mention · To what, where: mention, father
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 (eyes), 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 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 San | punct |
| 3 | Syeng | Syeng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 San | flat |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 1 San | case |
| 5 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 moistened | nsubj |
| 6 | also | also | ADV | _ | 7 moistened | advmod |
| 7 | moistened | moisten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 mention | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 mention | det |
| 10 | mention | mention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 moistened | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 father | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 father | det |
| 13 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 mention | nmod |
| 14 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 known | obl |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 known | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 known | aux |
| 17 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 18 known | advmod |
| 18 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 father | acl:relcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 moistened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | moisten | participle | San's eyes | the mention of the father | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | not know | past · perfect · passive | father | the father obl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | mention | the father | nom mention «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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