Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1, sentence 148
What especially troubled Sun was the idea that his wife might be lonely and depressed in this isolated place.
Who acts: wife · What happens: be · To what, where: idea, isolated place
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 (wife), 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 idea | nsubj |
| 2 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 3 troubled | advmod |
| 3 | troubled | troubled | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Sun | amod |
| 4 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 idea | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 idea | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 idea | det |
| 7 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 lonely | mark |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 wife | nmod:poss |
| 10 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lonely | nsubj |
| 11 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 lonely | aux |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 lonely | cop |
| 13 | lonely | lonely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 idea | acl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 depressed | cc |
| 15 | depressed | depressed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 lonely | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 place | case |
| 17 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 place | det |
| 18 | isolated | isolated | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 place | amod |
| 19 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lonely | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 idea | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the idea | What nsubj; troubled Sun nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | might | Yen's wife | the idea not said here | this isolated place | lonely property | tree rules | ||
| 3 | be | Yen's wife not said here | tree rules |
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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