Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1, sentence 23
Sun-Yen was profoundly moved when he heard it but, losing no time in passive sympathy, he summoned a police agent, of whom he demanded, “Do you know what caused the death of those unfortunates?”
Who acts: servant, you, unfortunates · What happens: move, hear, lose, summon, demand, know · To what, where: Sun, spectacle, passive sympathy, police agent, death · 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, you, unfortunates), 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 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 moved | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Yen | punct |
| 3 | Yen | Yen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Sun | conj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 moved | aux:pass |
| 5 | profoundly | profoundly | ADV | _ | 6 moved | advmod |
| 6 | moved | move | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 heard | advmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 heard | nsubj |
| 9 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 moved | advcl |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 heard | obj |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 losing | cc |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 losing | punct |
| 13 | losing | lose | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 heard | conj |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 time | det |
| 15 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 losing | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 sympathy | case |
| 17 | passive | passive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 sympathy | amod |
| 18 | sympathy | sympathy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 losing | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 summoned | punct |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 summoned | nsubj |
| 21 | summoned | summon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 moved | conj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 agent | det |
| 23 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 agent | compound |
| 24 | agent | agent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 summoned | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 whom | punct |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 whom | case |
| 27 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 summoned | obl |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 demanded | nsubj |
| 29 | demanded | demand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 whom | acl:relcl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 know | punct |
| 31 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 know | punct |
| 32 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 know | aux |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 34 know | nsubj |
| 34 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 summoned | parataxis |
| 35 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 36 caused | nsubj |
| 36 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 know | ccomp |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 death | det |
| 38 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 caused | obj |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 unfortunates | case |
| 40 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 41 unfortunates | det |
| 41 | unfortunates | unfortunate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 death | nmod |
| 42 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 34 know | punct |
| 43 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 moved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | past · passive | Sun and Yen | profoundly property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: subject=Result | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | servant | spectacle | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | lose | gerund | servant not said here | passive sympathy | time | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent in sympathy=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | summon | past | servant | a police agent | whom obl | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent agent=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 5 | demand speech: request | past | servant | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | know in a quote | present · do-support | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 7 | cause in a quote | past | the death of that unfortunates | what nsubj | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition death=Patient | ||||
| 8 | die in a quote | that unfortunates | nom death «event intransitive»: of=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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