Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 2, sentence 80
Happily Sun-Yen’s cries were heard by the disciple of an anchorite who lived in a cave on the mountain slope, a short distance from the lake.
Who acts: disciple, anchorite, Sun · What happens: hear, live, cry · To what, where: cries, cave
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, anchorite, Sun), 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 | Happily | happily | ADV | _ | 8 heard | advmod |
| 2 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 cries | nmod:poss |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Yen | punct |
| 4 | Yen | Yen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Sun | conj |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 Sun | case |
| 6 | cries | cry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 heard | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 heard | aux:pass |
| 8 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 disciple | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 disciple | det |
| 11 | disciple | disciple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 heard | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 anchorite | case |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 anchorite | det |
| 14 | anchorite | anchorite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 disciple | nmod |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 lived | nsubj |
| 16 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 anchorite | acl:relcl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 cave | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 cave | det |
| 19 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lived | obl |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 slope | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 slope | det |
| 22 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 slope | compound |
| 23 | slope | slope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lived | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 distance | punct |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 distance | det |
| 26 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 distance | amod |
| 27 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 slope | appos |
| 28 | from | from | ADP | _ | 30 lake | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 lake | det |
| 30 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 distance | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past · passive | the disciple of a anchorite | Sun and Yen's cries | happily property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | live | past | a anchorite | a cave | on the mountain slope | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cave=Location | |||
| 3 | cry | Sun and Yen | nom cry «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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