Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 3, sentence 58
The most violent contrast existed between the characters of Su-Rung and Su-Yeng, the two brothers, whom San-Houni engaged for the trip.
Who acts: violent contrast, San · What happens: exist, engage · To what, where: characters, two brothers
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 (violent contrast, San), 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 | 4 contrast | det |
| 2 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 3 violent | advmod |
| 3 | violent | violent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 contrast | amod |
| 4 | contrast | contrast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 existed | nsubj |
| 5 | existed | exist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | between | between | ADP | _ | 8 characters | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 characters | det |
| 8 | characters | character | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 existed | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Rung | case |
| 10 | Su | Su | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Rung | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 Su | punct |
| 12 | Rung | Rung | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 characters | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 Su | cc |
| 14 | Su | Su | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Rung | conj |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 Yeng | punct |
| 16 | Yeng | Yeng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Su | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 brothers | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 brothers | det |
| 19 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 brothers | nummod |
| 20 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 Rung | appos |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 engaged | punct |
| 22 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 engaged | obj |
| 23 | San | San | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 engaged | nsubj |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 Houni | punct |
| 25 | Houni | Houni | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 San | flat |
| 26 | engaged | engage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 brothers | acl:relcl |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 trip | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 trip | det |
| 29 | trip | trip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 engaged | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 existed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exist | past | the violent contrast | the characters of Su Rung and Su and Yeng | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between character=Location | ||||
| 2 | engage | past | San | the two brothers | for the trip | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Patient |
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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