Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 2, sentence 94
He took Sun by the arm and led him to his little dwelling.
Who acts: disciple · What happens: take, lead · To what, where: Sun, disciple, little dwelling
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), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 arm | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 arm | det |
| 6 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 led | cc |
| 8 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 led | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 dwelling | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 dwelling | nmod:poss |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 dwelling | amod |
| 13 | dwelling | dwelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 led | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | disciple | Sun | by the arm | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument sun=Destination | |||
| 2 | lead | past | disciple not said here | disciple | disciple's little dwelling | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to dwelling=Destination |
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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