Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1, sentence 159
On seeing them one would never have thought they were the victims of Fate.
Who acts: Sun · What happens: see, not think, be · To what, where: Sun, one, victims · Speech: someone speaks here
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), 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 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 2 seeing | mark |
| 2 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 thought | advcl |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 seeing | obj |
| 4 | one | one | PRON | PronType=Ind | 8 thought | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 thought | aux |
| 6 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 8 thought | advmod |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 thought | aux |
| 8 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 victims | nsubj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 victims | cop |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 victims | det |
| 12 | victims | victim | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 thought | ccomp |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Fate | case |
| 14 | Fate | Fate | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 victims | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | Sun | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | not think speech: other | would · perfect · passive | one | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | Sun | the victims | of Fate | 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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