Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 3, sentence 128
Yielding to the entreaties of Su-Yeng, the two women set out.
What happens: yield, set out · To what, where: two women
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: 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 | Yielding | yield | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 entreaties | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 entreaties | det |
| 4 | entreaties | entreaty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Yielding | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Su | case |
| 6 | Su | Su | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 entreaties | nmod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Yeng | punct |
| 8 | Yeng | Yeng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Su | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 women | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 women | det |
| 11 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 women | nummod |
| 12 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 Su | conj |
| 13 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 women | acl |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 set | compound:prt |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yielding | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yield | gerund | to the entreaties of Su and Yeng and the two women | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to entreaty=Theme | |||||
| 2 | set out | participle | the two women not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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