Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 2, sentence 148
In the days of our story, Korean merchants in search of business were accustomed to make one trip a year across the Yellow Sea, which lies between China and Korea.
Who acts: Yellow Sea · What happens: accustom, make, lie, search · To what, where: Korean merchants, one trip, Yellow Sea, China, business
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 (Yellow Sea), 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 | _ | 3 days | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 days | det |
| 3 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 accustomed | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 story | case |
| 5 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 story | nmod:poss |
| 6 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 days | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 merchants | punct |
| 8 | Korean | korean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 merchants | amod |
| 9 | merchants | merchant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 accustomed | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 search | case |
| 11 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 merchants | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 business | case |
| 13 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 search | nmod |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 accustomed | aux:pass |
| 15 | accustomed | accustom | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 make | mark |
| 17 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 accustomed | advcl |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 trip | nummod |
| 19 | trip | trip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 make | obj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 year | det |
| 21 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 make | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | across | across | ADP | _ | 25 Sea | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Sea | det |
| 24 | Yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 Sea | amod |
| 25 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 make | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 lies | punct |
| 27 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 lies | nsubj |
| 28 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 Sea | acl:relcl |
| 29 | between | between | ADP | _ | 30 China | case |
| 30 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 lies | obl |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 Korea | cc |
| 32 | Korea | Korea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 China | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 accustomed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accustom | past · passive | Korean merchants in search of business | day | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | one trip | the Yellow Sea | year | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset trip=Product | |||
| 3 | lie | present | the Yellow Sea | China and Korea | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent between china=Location | ||||
| 4 | search | business | nom search «act 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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