Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 2, sentence 154
Now, this day, Cheng-Si, the fair, had scarcely left her home when she met one of these traders in search of a human victim.
Who acts: Si · What happens: leave, meet, search · To what, where: home, one, human victim
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 (Si), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 left | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 day | det |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 left | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Cheng | punct |
| 6 | Cheng | Cheng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 day | appos |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Si | punct |
| 8 | Si | Si | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Cheng | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fair | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 fair | det |
| 11 | fair | fair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Cheng | appos |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 day | punct |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 left | aux |
| 14 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 15 left | advmod |
| 15 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 home | nmod:poss |
| 17 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 left | obj |
| 18 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 met | advmod |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 met | nsubj |
| 20 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 left | advcl |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 met | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 traders | case |
| 23 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 24 traders | det |
| 24 | traders | trader | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 one | nmod |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 search | case |
| 26 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 traders | nmod |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 victim | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 victim | det |
| 29 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 victim | amod |
| 30 | victim | victim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 search | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past · perfect | Si's home | now; day | scarcely property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Theme | |||
| 2 | meet | past | Si | one of this traders in search of a human victim | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | search | a human victim | 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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