Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, sentence 20
All the stolen objects that could be found were collected, thrown in a heap, and the party turned their steps toward the pagoda.
Who acts: party, objects · What happens: steal, find, collect, throw, turn, step · To what, where: stolen objects, heap, steps, pagoda
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 (party, objects), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 objects | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 objects | det |
| 3 | stolen | steal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 objects | amod |
| 4 | objects | object | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 collected | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 found | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 found | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 found | aux:pass |
| 8 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 objects | acl:relcl |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 collected | aux:pass |
| 10 | collected | collect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 thrown | punct |
| 12 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 collected | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 heap | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 heap | det |
| 15 | heap | heap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 thrown | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 turned | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 turned | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 party | det |
| 19 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 turned | nsubj |
| 20 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 collected | conj |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 steps | nmod:poss |
| 22 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 turned | obj |
| 23 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 25 pagoda | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 pagoda | det |
| 25 | pagoda | pagoda | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 turned | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 collected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | steal | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | find | could · passive | all stolen objects | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 3 | collect | past · passive | all stolen objects | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | throw | participle | a heap | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent in heap=Destination | |||||
| 5 | turn | past | the party | objects's steps | the pagoda | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent step=Theme toward pagoda=Trajectory | |||
| 6 | step | objects = object | nom step «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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