Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 2, sentence 151
Thinking to avoid this danger, the merchants had recourse to a very ancient and very barbarous practice.
Who acts: merchants · What happens: think, avoid, have · To what, where: danger, recourse
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 | Thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 had | advcl |
| 2 | to | to | PART | _ | 3 avoid | mark |
| 3 | avoid | avoid | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Thinking | advcl |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 danger | det |
| 5 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 avoid | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Thinking | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 merchants | det |
| 8 | merchants | merchant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 had | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | recourse | recourse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 had | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 practice | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 practice | det |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 ancient | advmod |
| 14 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 practice | amod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 barbarous | cc |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 barbarous | advmod |
| 17 | barbarous | barbarous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 ancient | conj |
| 18 | practice | practice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 had | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | gerund | the merchants not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | avoid | to-infinitive | the merchants not said here | this danger | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent danger=Location | ||||
| 3 | have | past | the merchants | recourse | to a ancient practice | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent recourse=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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