Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1, sentence 22
As soon as the servant saw this ghastly spectacle he returned to his master and told him what had taken place.
Who acts: servant · What happens: see, return, tell, take · To what, where: ghastly spectacle, master, servant, place · 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 (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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 saw | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | ADP | _ | 5 servant | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 servant | det |
| 5 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | obl |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 spectacle | det |
| 8 | ghastly | ghastly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 spectacle | amod |
| 9 | spectacle | spectacle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | obj |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 returned | nsubj |
| 11 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 spectacle | acl:relcl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 master | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 master | nmod:poss |
| 14 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 returned | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 told | cc |
| 16 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 saw | conj |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 told | iobj |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 20 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 taken | aux |
| 20 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 told | ccomp |
| 21 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 taken | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | this ghastly spectacle | as the servant; soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer spectacle=Stimulus as servant=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | return | past | servant | this ghastly spectacle not said here | servant's master | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent spectacle=Theme to master=Destination | |||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | servant | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | take | past · perfect · passive | place | what nsubj:pass | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme place=Destination |
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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