Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 2, sentence 153
These victims were thrown into the sea and the perils of the voyage were thought to be in this way forestalled.
What happens: throw, think, be, forestall, peril · To what, where: victims, sea, perils, way, voyage · Speech: someone speaks here
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: 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 victims | det |
| 2 | victims | victim | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 thrown | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thrown | aux:pass |
| 4 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 sea | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sea | det |
| 7 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thrown | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 thought | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 perils | det |
| 10 | perils | peril | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 thought | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 voyage | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 voyage | det |
| 13 | voyage | voyage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 perils | nmod |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 thought | aux:pass |
| 15 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 thrown | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 way | mark |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 way | cop |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 way | case |
| 19 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 way | det |
| 20 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 thought | ccomp |
| 21 | forestalled | forestall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 way | acl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thrown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | past · passive | this victims | into the sea result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Theme into sea=Result | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past · passive | the perils of the voyage | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | to-infinitive | this way | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | forestall | participle | this way not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | peril | the voyage | nom peril «state 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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