Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 2, sentence 179
When the disciple had come, Cheng-Si took him to the merchant’s place of business and turned over to him the three hundred bags of rice.
Who acts: disciple, Cheng · What happens: come, take, turn over · To what, where: disciple, place, hundred bags
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 (disciple, Cheng), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 come | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 disciple | det |
| 3 | disciple | disciple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 come | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 come | aux |
| 5 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 took | punct |
| 7 | Cheng | Cheng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 took | nsubj |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 Si | punct |
| 9 | Si | Si | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Cheng | flat |
| 10 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 come | parataxis |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 took | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 place | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 merchant | det |
| 14 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 place | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 merchant | case |
| 16 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 took | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 business | case |
| 18 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 place | nmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 turned | cc |
| 20 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 took | conj |
| 21 | over | over | ADP | _ | 20 turned | compound:prt |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 turned | obl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 bags | det |
| 25 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 hundred | compound |
| 26 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 bags | nummod |
| 27 | bags | bag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 turned | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 rice | case |
| 29 | rice | rice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 bags | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past · perfect | the disciple | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | take | past | Cheng | disciple | the merchant's place of business | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to place=Destination | |||
| 3 | turn over | past | Cheng not said here | the hundred bags of rice | disciple | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent bag=Theme to he=Recipient |
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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