Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 3, sentence 45
Cheng-Si renewed her requests to the magistrate, who, shortly after, visited the unfortunate father and tried to console him a bit, without succeeding to the slightest extent.
Who acts: Cheng · What happens: renew, visit, try, succeed, request · To what, where: requests, unfortunate father, console
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 | Cheng | Cheng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 renewed | nsubj |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Si | punct |
| 3 | Si | Si | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Cheng | flat |
| 4 | renewed | renew | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 requests | nmod:poss |
| 6 | requests | request | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 renewed | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 magistrate | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 magistrate | det |
| 9 | magistrate | magistrate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 renewed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 after | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 after | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 after | punct |
| 13 | shortly | shortly | ADV | _ | 14 after | advmod |
| 14 | after | after | ADP | _ | 9 magistrate | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 visited | punct |
| 16 | visited | visit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 renewed | parataxis |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 father | det |
| 18 | unfortunate | unfortunate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 father | amod |
| 19 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 visited | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 tried | cc |
| 21 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 visited | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 console | mark |
| 23 | console | console | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 tried | obj |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 console | obj |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 bit | det |
| 26 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 tried | obl:unmarked |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 succeeding | punct |
| 28 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 29 succeeding | mark |
| 29 | succeeding | succeed | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 tried | advcl |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 extent | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 extent | det |
| 32 | slightest | slight | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 33 extent | amod |
| 33 | extent | extent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 succeeding | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 renewed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | renew | past | Cheng | Cheng's requests | to the magistrate | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent request=Patient | |||
| 2 | visit | past | the unfortunate father | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Co-Agent | |||||
| 3 | try | past | console father | a bit obl:unmarked | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent console=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | succeed | gerund | to the slightest extent | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | request | Cheng | nom request «communication transitive»: 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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