Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1, sentence 146
The journey of Sun-Yen and his wife to the Island of Kang-Sin was uneventful and they were soon alone in their new home.
Who acts: journey · What happens: be, journey · To what, where: new home, Sun Yen
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 (journey), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 journey | det |
| 2 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 uneventful | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Yen | case |
| 4 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Yen | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Sun | punct |
| 6 | Yen | Yen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 journey | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 wife | cc |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 wife | nmod:poss |
| 9 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 journey | conj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 Island | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Island | det |
| 12 | Island | Island | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 wife | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Kang | case |
| 14 | Kang | Kang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Island | nmod |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 Sin | punct |
| 16 | Sin | Sin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Island | conj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 uneventful | cop |
| 18 | uneventful | uneventful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 alone | cc |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 alone | nsubj |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 alone | cop |
| 22 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 alone | advmod |
| 23 | alone | alone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 uneventful | conj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 home | case |
| 25 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 home | nmod:poss |
| 26 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 home | amod |
| 27 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 alone | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 uneventful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the journey of Sun Yen and Yen's wife to the Island of Kang and Sin | uneventful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | journey | journey's new home | alone, soon property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | journey | Sun Yen | nom journey «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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