Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 11, sentence 3
When he was alone Sun-Yen considered the problem from every angle.
Who acts: he, alone Sun · What happens: be, consider · To what, where: problem, angle
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 (he, alone Sun), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 alone | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 alone | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 alone | cop |
| 4 | alone | alone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Sun | amod |
| 5 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 considered | nsubj |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Yen | punct |
| 7 | Yen | Yen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Sun | conj |
| 8 | considered | consider | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 problem | det |
| 10 | problem | problem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 considered | obj |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 angle | case |
| 12 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 angle | det |
| 13 | angle | angle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 considered | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 considered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | alone property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | consider | past | alone Sun and Yen | the problem | every angle | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent problem=Attribute |
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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