Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 2, sentence 14
In fact, it was not long before she gave birth to a daughter to whom they gave the name of Cheng-Si.
Who acts: truth, Fatigue, children · What happens: not be, give, name · To what, where: birth, daughter, fact, name, Cheng
This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (truth, Fatigue, children), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 fact | case |
| 2 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gave | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 fact | punct |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 long | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 long | cop |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 long | advmod |
| 7 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 gave | advmod |
| 8 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 10 gave | mark |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 gave | nsubj |
| 10 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gave | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 daughter | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 daughter | det |
| 14 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gave | obl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 whom | case |
| 16 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 gave | obl |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 gave | nsubj |
| 18 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 gave | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 name | det |
| 20 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gave | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Cheng | case |
| 22 | Cheng | Cheng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 name | nmod |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 Si | punct |
| 24 | Si | Si | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Cheng | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | truth | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give | past | Fatigue | birth | a daughter | fact | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent birth=Theme to daughter=Recipient | ||
| 3 | give | past | children = child | the name of Cheng and Si | whom obl | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Theme to whom=Recipient | |||
| 4 | name | Cheng and Si | nom name «communication 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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