Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 11, sentence 48
Possibly he had been carried to Heaven in a cloud--to his last and well-deserved home with his ancestors.
What happens: carry, deserve · To what, where: Minister, Heaven, cloud, home
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 | Possibly | possibly | ADV | _ | 5 carried | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 carried | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 carried | aux:pass |
| 5 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Heaven | case |
| 7 | Heaven | Heaven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 carried | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 cloud | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 cloud | det |
| 10 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 carried | obl |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 14 last | punct |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 last | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 last | nmod:poss |
| 14 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 carried | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 deserved | cc |
| 16 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 deserved | advmod |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 well | punct |
| 18 | deserved | deserve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 last | conj |
| 19 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 deserved | obj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 ancestors | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 ancestors | nmod:poss |
| 22 | ancestors | ancestor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 deserved | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past · perfect · passive | Minister | Heaven | a cloud | possibly property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to heaven=Destination | ||
| 2 | deserve | participle | home | with Minister's ancestors; well property | 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.
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