Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, sentence 167
Sun-Yen the benevolent, spoke to them in a gentle tone and in the name of the King invited them to stay several days at the Capital, and the blind men, you may believe, accepted with joy, for they knew they would be well taken care of.
Who acts: Sun, Alas, blind men · What happens: speak, invite, stay, believe, accept, know · To what, where: Alas, gentle tone, King · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Sun, Alas, blind men), 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 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 spoke | nsubj |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Yen | punct |
| 3 | Yen | Yen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Sun | conj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 benevolent | det |
| 5 | benevolent | benevolent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Yen | amod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sun | punct |
| 7 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 them | case |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 spoke | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 tone | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 tone | det |
| 12 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 tone | amod |
| 13 | tone | tone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 spoke | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 name | cc |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 name | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 name | det |
| 17 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tone | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 King | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 King | det |
| 20 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 name | nmod |
| 21 | invited | invite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 spoke | conj |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 invited | obj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 stay | mark |
| 24 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 invited | xcomp |
| 25 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 days | amod |
| 26 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 stay | obj |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 Capital | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Capital | det |
| 29 | Capital | Capital | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 days | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 believe | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 believe | cc |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 men | det |
| 33 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 men | amod |
| 34 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 believe | nsubj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 men | punct |
| 36 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 38 believe | nsubj |
| 37 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 believe | aux |
| 38 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 spoke | parataxis |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 accepted | punct |
| 40 | accepted | accept | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 believe | parataxis |
| 41 | with | with | ADP | _ | 42 joy | case |
| 42 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 accepted | obl |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 knew | punct |
| 44 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 46 knew | mark |
| 45 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 knew | nsubj |
| 46 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 accepted | conj |
| 47 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 51 taken | nsubj |
| 48 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 51 taken | aux |
| 49 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 51 taken | aux:pass |
| 50 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 51 taken | advmod |
| 51 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 46 knew | ccomp |
| 52 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 taken | obj |
| 53 | of | of | ADP | _ | 51 taken | obl |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | Sun and Yen | Alas = ala | a gentle tone and the name of the King | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to they=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | invite | past | Sun and Yen not said here | Alas = ala | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | stay not said to happen | to-infinitive | Alas = ala not said here | day | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | believe | may | the blind men | you nsubj | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | accept | participle | with joy | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | know | past | Alas = ala | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 7 | take | would · passive | Alas = ala | care obj; well property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme care=Destination | ||||
| 8 | name | the King | nom name «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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