Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 11, sentence 43
’Twas a happy epoch for our country.
To what, where: Twas
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: 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 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Twas | punct |
| 2 | Twas | twa | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 epoch | det |
| 4 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 epoch | amod |
| 5 | epoch | epoch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Twas | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 country | case |
| 7 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 country | nmod:poss |
| 8 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 epoch | nmod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Twas | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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