Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1, sentence 88
Ja-Jo-Mi, adopting a disguise, left his home and, dropping the missive in the path of an agent of police, passed on in the darkness of the Korean night.
Who acts: Ja · What happens: adopt, leave, drop, pass on · To what, where: disguise, home, missive, path, police, darkness
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 (Ja), 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 | Ja | Ja | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 left | nsubj |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ja | punct |
| 3 | Jo | Jo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Ja | flat |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Mi | punct |
| 5 | Mi | Mi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Ja | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 adopting | punct |
| 7 | adopting | adopt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Ja | acl:relcl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 disguise | det |
| 9 | disguise | disguise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 adopting | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ja | punct |
| 11 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 home | nmod:poss |
| 13 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 left | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 dropping | cc |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 dropping | punct |
| 16 | dropping | drop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 left | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 missive | det |
| 18 | missive | missive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 dropping | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 path | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 path | det |
| 21 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 dropping | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 agent | case |
| 23 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 agent | det |
| 24 | agent | agent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 path | nmod |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 police | case |
| 26 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 agent | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 passed | punct |
| 28 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 police | acl |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 passed | compound:prt |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 darkness | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 darkness | det |
| 32 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 passed | obl |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 night | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 night | det |
| 35 | Korean | korean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 night | amod |
| 36 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 darkness | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | adopt | gerund | Ja and Mi not said here | a disguise | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent disguise=Theme | ||||
| 2 | leave | past | Ja and Mi | Mi's home | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Theme | ||||
| 3 | drop | gerund | Ja and Mi not said here | the missive | the path of a agent of police | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent missive=Theme in path=Destination | |||
| 4 | pass on | participle | police not said here | the darkness of the Korean night | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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