Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 11, sentence 19
The repast, the first of this kind in all Korea, was a merry one.
Who acts: repast · What happens: be · To what, where: merry one
This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (repast), 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 repast | det |
| 2 | repast | repast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 one | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 first | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 first | det |
| 5 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 2 repast | appos |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 kind | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 kind | det |
| 8 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 first | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 Korea | case |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 Korea | det |
| 11 | Korea | Korea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 kind | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 repast | punct |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 one | cop |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 one | det |
| 15 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 one | amod |
| 16 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the repast | a merry one | tree rules |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78208/13/19/