Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, sentence 19
After a brief struggle, Su-Rung was reduced to helplessness and securely bound.
What happens: reduce, bind · To what, where: Su, helplessness
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: 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 4 struggle | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 struggle | det |
| 3 | brief | brief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 struggle | amod |
| 4 | struggle | struggle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 reduced | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 struggle | punct |
| 6 | Su | Su | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 reduced | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Rung | punct |
| 8 | Rung | Rung | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Su | conj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 reduced | aux:pass |
| 10 | reduced | reduce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 helplessness | case |
| 12 | helplessness | helplessness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 reduced | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 bound | cc |
| 14 | securely | securely | ADV | _ | 15 bound | advmod |
| 15 | bound | bind | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 reduced | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 reduced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reduce | past · passive | Su and Rung | after a brief struggle | to helplessness goal | vn limit-76 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Patient to helplessness=Goal | |||
| 2 | bind | participle | securely property | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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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