Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1, sentence 142
Sun-Yen and his wife found it hard to break away from the embraces of their relatives and weeping friends.
Who acts: Sun, money · What happens: find, break away, weep, embrace · To what, where: money, friends, relatives
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, money), 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 | 7 found | nsubj |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Yen | punct |
| 3 | Yen | Yen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Sun | conj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 wife | cc |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 wife | nmod:poss |
| 6 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Sun | conj |
| 7 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 found | obj |
| 9 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 found | xcomp |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 break | mark |
| 11 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 hard | xcomp |
| 12 | away | away | ADV | _ | 11 break | advmod |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 embraces | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 embraces | det |
| 15 | embraces | embrace | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 away | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 relatives | case |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 relatives | nmod:poss |
| 18 | relatives | relative | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 embraces | nmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 weeping | cc |
| 20 | weeping | weep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 break | conj |
| 21 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 weeping | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | Sun and Yen and Yen's wife | money | hard property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | |||
| 2 | break away | to-infinitive | money not said here | away property | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | weep | gerund | money not said here | friends | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent friend=Theme | ||||
| 4 | embrace | Sun's relatives | nom embrace «act 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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