Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1, sentence 15
To get away from his own thoughts, he resolved to go visit his friend, San-Houni, one of the greatest scholars of Korea.
Who acts: Yen · What happens: get away, resolve, go, visit, think · To what, where: own thoughts, friend
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 (Yen), 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 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 get | mark |
| 2 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 resolved | advcl |
| 3 | away | away | ADV | _ | 2 get | advmod |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 thoughts | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 thoughts | nmod:poss |
| 6 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 thoughts | amod |
| 7 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 get | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 get | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 resolved | nsubj |
| 10 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 go | mark |
| 12 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 resolved | xcomp |
| 13 | visit | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 go | xcomp |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 friend | nmod:poss |
| 15 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 visit | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 San | punct |
| 17 | San | San | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 friend | appos |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 Houni | punct |
| 19 | Houni | Houni | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 San | flat |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 one | punct |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 friend | appos |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 scholars | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 scholars | det |
| 24 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 25 scholars | amod |
| 25 | scholars | scholar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 one | nmod |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Korea | case |
| 27 | Korea | Korea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 scholars | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 resolved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get away | to-infinitive | Yen not said here | Yen's own thoughts | away property | vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from thought=Source | |||
| 2 | resolve | past | Yen | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | go | to-infinitive | Yen not said here | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | visit | infinitive | Yen not said here | Yen's friend | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Co-Agent | ||||
| 5 | think | Yen | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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