Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, sentence 165
The other blind men had been informed of what had taken place and a few among them envied the good fortune of Sun-Yen.
Who acts: few · What happens: inform, take, envy · To what, where: other blind men, place, good fortune
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 (few), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 men | det |
| 2 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 men | amod |
| 3 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 men | amod |
| 4 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 informed | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 informed | aux |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 informed | aux:pass |
| 7 | informed | inform | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 what | case |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 informed | obl |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 taken | aux |
| 11 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 what | acl:relcl |
| 12 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 taken | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 envied | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 few | det |
| 15 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 envied | nsubj |
| 16 | among | among | ADP | _ | 17 them | case |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 few | nmod |
| 18 | envied | envy | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 informed | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 fortune | det |
| 20 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 fortune | amod |
| 21 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 envied | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Yen | case |
| 23 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Yen | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 Sun | punct |
| 25 | Yen | Yen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 fortune | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 informed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | inform speech: other | past · perfect · passive | the other blind men | what obl | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: subject=Recipient of what=Topic | ||||
| 2 | take | past · perfect | place | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme | |||||
| 3 | envy | past | a few among words | the good fortune of Sun Yen | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fortune=Stimulus |
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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