Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1, sentence 4
On the contrary, he sought diligently to help all those who came within his sphere of influence.
Who acts: Yen · What happens: seek, help, come · To what, where: those
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 (Yen), 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 | ADP | _ | 3 contrary | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 contrary | det |
| 3 | contrary | contrary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 sought | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 sought | nsubj |
| 6 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 contrary | conj |
| 7 | diligently | diligently | ADV | _ | 6 sought | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 help | mark |
| 9 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 sought | advcl |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 those | det:predet |
| 11 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 help | obj |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 came | nsubj |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 those | acl:relcl |
| 14 | within | within | ADP | _ | 16 sphere | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 sphere | nmod:poss |
| 16 | sphere | sphere | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 came | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 influence | case |
| 18 | influence | influence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sphere | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 contrary | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seek | past | Yen | diligently property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | help | to-infinitive | Yen not said here | those | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | come | past | within Yen's sphere of influence; who nsubj | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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