Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1, sentence 47
At these words, Sun left his sovereign and went home and told his wife what he had done--the mark of a dutiful husband.
Who acts: Sun, King · What happens: leave, go, tell, do, mark · To what, where: sovereign, words, wife, mark, dutiful husband · 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 (Sun, King), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 words | case |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 words | det |
| 3 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 left | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 words | punct |
| 5 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 left | nsubj |
| 6 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 sovereign | nmod:poss |
| 8 | sovereign | sovereign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 left | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 went | cc |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 left | conj |
| 11 | home | home | ADV | _ | 10 went | advmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 told | cc |
| 13 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 left | conj |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 wife | nmod:poss |
| 15 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 told | iobj |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 19 done | obj |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 done | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 done | aux |
| 19 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 told | ccomp |
| 20 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 22 mark | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 mark | det |
| 22 | mark | mark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 done | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 husband | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 husband | det |
| 25 | dutiful | dutiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 husband | amod |
| 26 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 mark | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | Sun | King's sovereign | this words | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent sovereign=Theme at word=Location | |||
| 2 | go | past | Sun not said here | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | Sun not said here | King's wife | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | do | past · perfect | King | the mark of a dutiful husband | what obj | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||
| 5 | mark | a dutiful husband | nom mark «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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