Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, sentence 54
Before returning to the Capital, San-Houni’s son visited several more of the provinces, looking after the King’s business.
Who acts: son · What happens: return, visit, look · To what, where: several
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 (son), 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 | Before | before | SCONJ | _ | 2 returning | mark |
| 2 | returning | return | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 visited | advcl |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 Capital | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Capital | det |
| 5 | Capital | Capital | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 returning | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 returning | punct |
| 7 | San | San | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 son | nmod:poss |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 San | punct |
| 9 | Houni | Houni | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 San | flat |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 San | case |
| 11 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 visited | nsubj |
| 12 | visited | visit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 visited | obj |
| 14 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 several | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 provinces | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 provinces | det |
| 17 | provinces | province | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 more | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 looking | punct |
| 19 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 visited | advcl |
| 20 | after | after | ADP | _ | 24 business | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 King | det |
| 22 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 business | nmod:poss |
| 23 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 22 King | case |
| 24 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 looking | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 visited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | gerund | San's son not said here | to the Capital result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to capital=Result | ||||
| 2 | visit | past | San's son | several | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent several=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | look | gerund | San's son not said here | after the King's business | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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