Winning Buddha's smile, Koreans Whose Footsteps Cross the Paths of Our Legend, sentence 5
SAN-SYENG, the scholar’s son, whose Merit findeth pleasure in the sight of Heaven and taketh him unto High Offices.
Who acts: Merit · What happens: find, take, sight · To what, where: pleasure, sight, Merit, SAN, Heaven
This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Koreans Whose Footsteps Cross the Paths of Our Legend. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Merit), 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 | SAN | SAN | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 SAN | punct |
| 3 | SYENG | SYENG | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 SAN | flat |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 son | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 scholar | det |
| 6 | scholar | scholar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 son | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 scholar | case |
| 8 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 SAN | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 findeth | punct |
| 10 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 11 Merit | nmod:poss |
| 11 | Merit | merit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 findeth | nsubj |
| 12 | findeth | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 SAN | parataxis |
| 13 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 findeth | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 sight | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sight | det |
| 16 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 findeth | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Heaven | case |
| 18 | Heaven | Heaven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 sight | nmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 taketh | cc |
| 20 | taketh | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 findeth | conj |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 taketh | obj |
| 22 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 24 Offices | case |
| 23 | High | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 Offices | amod |
| 24 | Offices | Office | PROPN | Number=Plur | 20 taketh | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 SAN | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present | Merit | pleasure | the sight of Heaven | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pleasure=Topic | |||
| 2 | take | present | Merit not said here | Merit | unto High Offices | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination | |||
| 4 | sight | Heaven | nom sight «cognition 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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