Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, sentence 71
And thus it came to pass that Cheng-Si collected all the blind men of Korea in order to give them a token.
Who acts: order, Cheng Si · What happens: come, pass, collect, give · To what, where: blind men, order, token, Cheng
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 (order, Cheng Si), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 came | cc |
| 2 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 pass | mark |
| 6 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 came | xcomp |
| 7 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 Si | det |
| 8 | Cheng | Cheng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Si | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Cheng | punct |
| 10 | Si | Si | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 collected | nsubj |
| 11 | collected | collect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 pass | ccomp |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 men | det:predet |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 men | det |
| 14 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 men | amod |
| 15 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 collected | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Korea | case |
| 17 | Korea | Korea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 men | nmod |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 order | case |
| 19 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 collected | obl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 give | mark |
| 21 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 collected | advcl |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 give | iobj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 token | det |
| 24 | token | token | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 give | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | order | thus property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pass | to-infinitive | order not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | collect | past | that Cheng Si | all blind men of Korea | order | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme | |||
| 4 | give | to-infinitive | that Cheng Si not said here | a token | Cheng | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient token=Theme |
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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