Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 3, sentence 32
The following day, after she had obtained the hundred sacks of rice, she sought an audience with the leading magistrate of the town.
Who acts: Cheng · What happens: follow, obtain, seek, lead · To what, where: hundred sacks, audience
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 (Cheng), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 2 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sought | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 obtained | punct |
| 5 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 8 obtained | mark |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 obtained | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 obtained | aux |
| 8 | obtained | obtain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 day | acl:relcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sacks | det |
| 10 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 sacks | nummod |
| 11 | sacks | sack | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 obtained | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 rice | case |
| 13 | rice | rice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sacks | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 day | punct |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 sought | nsubj |
| 16 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 audience | det |
| 18 | audience | audience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sought | obj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 magistrate | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 magistrate | det |
| 21 | leading | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 magistrate | amod |
| 22 | magistrate | magistrate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 audience | nmod |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 town | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 town | det |
| 25 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 magistrate | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 sought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | obtain | past · perfect | Cheng | the hundred sacks of rice | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sack=Theme | ||||
| 3 | seek | past | Cheng | a audience | day | with the leading magistrate of the town | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent audience=Theme | ||
| 4 | lead | gerund | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |
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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