Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1, sentence 20
He made a way through the crowd which had gathered and soon learned the reason for the gathering.
Who acts: servant · What happens: make, gather, learn · To what, where: way, crowd, reason
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 (servant), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 made | nsubj |
| 2 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 way | det |
| 4 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 made | obj |
| 5 | through | through | ADP | _ | 7 crowd | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 crowd | det |
| 7 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 made | obl |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 gathered | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 gathered | aux |
| 10 | gathered | gather | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 crowd | acl:relcl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 learned | cc |
| 12 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 learned | advmod |
| 13 | learned | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 made | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 reason | det |
| 15 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 learned | obj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 gathering | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 gathering | det |
| 18 | gathering | gathering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 reason | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | servant | a way | the crowd | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Product | |||
| 2 | gather | past · perfect · passive | the crowd | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | learn | past | servant not said here | the reason | for the gathering; soon property | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Topic |
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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