Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1, sentence 134
Escorted to his home by an agent of police, Sun told his wife what had happened.
Who acts: Sun · What happens: escort, tell, happen · To what, where: home, wife · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | Escorted | escort | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 told | ccomp |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 home | case |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 home | nmod:poss |
| 4 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Escorted | obl |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 agent | case |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 agent | det |
| 7 | agent | agent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Escorted | obl:agent |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 police | case |
| 9 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 agent | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Escorted | punct |
| 11 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 told | nsubj |
| 12 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 wife | nmod:poss |
| 14 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 told | iobj |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 happened | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 happened | aux |
| 17 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 told | ccomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | escort | participle | San's home | a agent of police obl:agent | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to home=Destination | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | Sun | San's wife | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | happen | past · perfect | what nsubj | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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