Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 3, sentence 126
Su-Yeng helped them to their feet and urged them again to leave.
Who acts: Su · What happens: help, urge, leave · To what, where: Yeng, Su
This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Su), 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 | Su | Su | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 helped | nsubj |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Yeng | punct |
| 3 | Yeng | Yeng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Su | conj |
| 4 | helped | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 helped | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 feet | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 feet | nmod:poss |
| 8 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 helped | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 urged | cc |
| 10 | urged | urge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 helped | conj |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 urged | obj |
| 12 | again | again | ADV | _ | 10 urged | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 leave | mark |
| 14 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 urged | advcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 helped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | past | Su and Yeng | Yeng | to Su's feet | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | urge | past | Su and Yeng not said here | Su | again | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | |||
| 3 | leave | to-infinitive | Su and Yeng not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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