Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, sentence 92
The ladies of the Court had been instructed to see that nothing was lacking for the comfort of the blind men who had come from all corners of Korea.
Who acts: nothing, blind men · What happens: instruct, see, lack, come, comfort · To what, where: ladies, corners, blind men
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 (nothing, blind men), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 ladies | det |
| 2 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 instructed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Court | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Court | det |
| 5 | Court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ladies | nmod |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 instructed | aux |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 instructed | aux:pass |
| 8 | instructed | instruct | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 see | mark |
| 10 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 instructed | xcomp |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 lacking | mark |
| 12 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 14 lacking | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 lacking | aux |
| 14 | lacking | lack | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 see | advcl |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 comfort | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 comfort | det |
| 17 | comfort | comfort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lacking | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 men | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 men | det |
| 20 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 men | amod |
| 21 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 comfort | nmod |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 come | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 come | aux |
| 24 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 men | acl:relcl |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 corners | case |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 corners | det |
| 27 | corners | corner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 come | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Korea | case |
| 29 | Korea | Korea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 corners | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 instructed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | instruct speech: other | past · perfect · passive | the ladies of the Court | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | lack | past · progressive | nothing | for the comfort of the blind men | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | come | past · perfect | the blind men | all corners of Korea | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from corner=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | comfort | the blind men | nom comfort «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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