Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 2, sentence 58
There was a time when I lived at the Capital of Korea with your poor mother and we were surrounded by many friends.
Who acts: time, I, many friends · What happens: be, live, surround · To what, where: Capital, we
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 (time, I, many friends), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 lived | advmod |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 lived | nsubj |
| 7 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 time | acl:relcl |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 Capital | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Capital | det |
| 10 | Capital | Capital | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 lived | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Korea | case |
| 12 | Korea | Korea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Capital | nmod |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 mother | case |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 mother | nmod:poss |
| 15 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 mother | amod |
| 16 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lived | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 surrounded | cc |
| 18 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 surrounded | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 surrounded | aux:pass |
| 20 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 lived | conj |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 friends | case |
| 22 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 friends | amod |
| 23 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 surrounded | obl:agent |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a time | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | live | past | I | the Capital of Korea | with your poor mother | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at capital=Location | |||
| 3 | surround | past · passive | many friends | we | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme |
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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