Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1, sentence 21
They were about to carry away several people who had died by the highway.
Who acts: orders, several people · What happens: carry away, die · To what, where: several people
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 (orders, several people), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 carry | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 carry | aux |
| 3 | about | about | ADV | _ | 5 carry | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 carry | mark |
| 5 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 carry | advmod |
| 7 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 people | amod |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 carry | obj |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 died | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 died | aux |
| 11 | died | die | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 people | acl:relcl |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 highway | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 highway | det |
| 14 | highway | highway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 died | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 carry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry away | past | orders = order | several people | about, away property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme | |||
| 2 | die | past · perfect | several people | by the highway | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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