Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1, sentence 140
Sun summoned a few poor families to whom he distributed the little money he possessed.
Who acts: Sun, Doubtless · What happens: summon, distribute, possess · To what, where: few poor families, little money
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, Doubtless), 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 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 summoned | nsubj |
| 2 | summoned | summon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 families | det |
| 4 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 families | amod |
| 5 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 families | amod |
| 6 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 summoned | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 whom | case |
| 8 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 summoned | obl |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 distributed | nsubj |
| 10 | distributed | distribute | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 whom | acl:relcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 money | det |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 money | amod |
| 13 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 distributed | obj |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 possessed | nsubj |
| 15 | possessed | possess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 money | acl:relcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 summoned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | summon | past | Sun | a few poor families | whom obl | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent family=Recipient | |||
| 2 | distribute | past | Doubtless | the little money | vn contribute-13.2-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent money=Theme | ||||
| 3 | possess | past | Doubtless | the little money not said here | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot money=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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