Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1, sentence 6
He was, therefore, beloved by the people who saw in Sun-Yen a most disinterested protector in whom they had absolute confidence.
Who acts: people, Sun · What happens: belov, see, disinterest, have · To what, where: happiness, disinterested protector, Sun, absolute confidence
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 (people, Sun), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 beloved | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 beloved | aux:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 beloved | punct |
| 4 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 6 beloved | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 beloved | punct |
| 6 | beloved | belov | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 people | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 people | det |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 beloved | obl |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 saw | nsubj |
| 11 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 people | acl:relcl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 Sun | case |
| 13 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 saw | obl |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 Yen | punct |
| 15 | Yen | Yen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Sun | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 protector | det |
| 17 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 18 disinterested | advmod |
| 18 | disinterested | disinterest | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 protector | amod |
| 19 | protector | protector | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 saw | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 whom | case |
| 21 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 protector | nmod |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 had | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 whom | acl:relcl |
| 24 | absolute | absolute | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 confidence | amod |
| 25 | confidence | confidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 had | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 beloved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | belov | past · passive | the people | happiness | therefore property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | see | past | the people | a disinterested protector | Sun and Yen | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer protector=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | disinterest | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | have | past | Sun | absolute confidence | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent confidence=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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