Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 3, sentence 56
San-Houni’s few servants took care of the details of the packing but he himself went in quest of a boatman who would agree to take him and his wife across the waters to the island.
Who acts: few servants, trip, boatman, details · What happens: take, go, agree, care, detail, quest · To what, where: care, quest, trip, waters, packing
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 (few servants, trip, boatman, details), 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 | San | San | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 servants | nmod:poss |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 San | punct |
| 3 | Houni | Houni | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 San | flat |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 1 San | case |
| 5 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 servants | amod |
| 6 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 took | nsubj |
| 7 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 took | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 details | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 details | det |
| 11 | details | detail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 care | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 packing | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 packing | det |
| 14 | packing | packing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 details | nmod |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 went | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 went | nsubj |
| 17 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 16 he | nmod:unmarked |
| 18 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 took | conj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 quest | case |
| 20 | quest | quest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 went | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 boatman | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 boatman | det |
| 23 | boatman | boatman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 quest | nmod |
| 24 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 agree | nsubj |
| 25 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 agree | aux |
| 26 | agree | agree | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 boatman | acl:relcl |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 take | mark |
| 28 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 agree | xcomp |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 take | obj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 wife | cc |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 wife | nmod:poss |
| 32 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 him | conj |
| 33 | across | across | ADP | _ | 35 waters | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 waters | det |
| 35 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 take | obl |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 island | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 island | det |
| 38 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 take | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | San's few servants | care of the details of the packing | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | past | trip | quest of a boatman | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in quest=Location | ||||
| 3 | agree speech: agree | would | a boatman | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | take not said to happen | to-infinitive | a boatman not said here | trip | the waters | to the island | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to island=Destination | ||
| 5 | care | the details of the packing | nom care «act intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 6 | detail | the packing | nom detail «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 7 | quest | a boatman | nom quest «cognition intransitive»: of=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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