Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, sentence 42
When the troops and their prisoner were about to depart, San-Syeng, turning to Su-Yeng, said:
Who acts: troops · What happens: be, depart, turn, say · To what, where: Su · 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 (troops), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 about | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 troops | det |
| 3 | troops | troops | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 8 about | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 prisoner | cc |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 prisoner | nmod:poss |
| 6 | prisoner | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 troops | conj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 about | cop |
| 8 | about | about | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 said | ccomp |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 depart | mark |
| 10 | depart | depart | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 about | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 San | punct |
| 12 | San | San | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 about | conj |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 Syeng | punct |
| 14 | Syeng | Syeng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 San | flat |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 turning | punct |
| 16 | turning | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 said | ccomp |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 Su | case |
| 18 | Su | Su | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 turning | obl |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 Yeng | punct |
| 20 | Yeng | Yeng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Su | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 turning | punct |
| 22 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the troops and troops's prisoner | San conj; about property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | depart | to-infinitive | the troops and troops's prisoner not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | turn | gerund | Su and Yeng | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to su=Result | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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