Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, sentence 40
Yeng-Si did not insist; her mind was crowded with other more charitable thoughts when, in company with her friends, she knelt in the beautiful pagoda to pray for the soul of the martyred woman to whom she owed her life.
Who acts: Yeng, mind · What happens: not insist, be, kneel, pray, martyr, owe · To what, where: beautiful pagoda, life
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 (Yeng, mind), 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 | Yeng | Yeng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 insist | nsubj |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Si | punct |
| 3 | Si | Si | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Yeng | flat |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 insist | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 insist | advmod |
| 6 | insist | insist | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 crowded | punct |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 mind | nmod:poss |
| 9 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 crowded | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 crowded | cop |
| 11 | crowded | crowded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 insist | conj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 thoughts | case |
| 13 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 thoughts | amod |
| 14 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 15 charitable | advmod |
| 15 | charitable | charitable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 thoughts | amod |
| 16 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 crowded | obl |
| 17 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 thoughts | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 company | punct |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 company | case |
| 20 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 when | appos |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 friends | case |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 friends | nmod:poss |
| 23 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 company | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 knelt | punct |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 knelt | nsubj |
| 26 | knelt | kneel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 company | parataxis |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 pagoda | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 pagoda | det |
| 29 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 pagoda | amod |
| 30 | pagoda | pagoda | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 knelt | obl |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 pray | mark |
| 32 | pray | pray | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 knelt | advcl |
| 33 | for | for | ADP | _ | 35 soul | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 soul | det |
| 35 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 pray | obl |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 woman | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 woman | det |
| 38 | martyred | martyr | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 39 woman | amod |
| 39 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 soul | nmod |
| 40 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 whom | case |
| 41 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 woman | nmod |
| 42 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 owed | nsubj |
| 43 | owed | owe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 whom | acl:relcl |
| 44 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 life | nmod:poss |
| 45 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 owed | obj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 insist | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not insist speech: other | past · do-support | Yeng | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | Yeng's mind | with other charitable thoughts; crowded property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | kneel | past | Yeng | the beautiful pagoda | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in pagoda=Location | ||||
| 4 | pray | to-infinitive | Yeng not said here | for the soul of the martyred woman to the soul of the martyred woman to the soul | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for soul=Theme | ||||
| 5 | martyr | participle | vn orphan-29.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | owe | past | Yeng | Yeng's life | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent life=Theme | ||||
| 7 | mind | Yeng | nom mind «cognition 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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