Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 2, sentence 150
After each trip they were always sure to report the loss of some boat.
Who acts: merchants · What happens: be, report · To what, where: loss
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 (merchants), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 trip | case |
| 2 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 trip | det |
| 3 | trip | trip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sure | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 sure | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sure | cop |
| 6 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 7 sure | advmod |
| 7 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 report | mark |
| 9 | report | report | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 sure | xcomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 loss | det |
| 11 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 report | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 boat | case |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 boat | det |
| 14 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 loss | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | merchants = merchant | after each trip | always, sure property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | report | to-infinitive | merchants = merchant not said here | the loss of some boat | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent loss=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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