Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, sentence 8
Upon it could be read this inscription:
What happens: read · To what, where: 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: 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 | Upon | upon | SCONJ | _ | 5 read | mark |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 read | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 read | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 read | aux:pass |
| 5 | read | read | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 inscription | det |
| 7 | inscription | inscription | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 read | obj |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 read | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read | could · passive | pagoda | this inscription obj | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient inscription=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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