Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 3, sentence 60
As long as they were in sight of the coast, things went well, but when the party was on the open sea, Su-Rung the wicked, revealed his designs.
Who acts: misfortunes, things, party, open sea, Sea · What happens: be, go, reveal, design · To what, where: open sea, designs
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 (misfortunes, things, party, open sea), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 long | advmod |
| 2 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 went | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 sight | case |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 sight | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sight | cop |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 sight | case |
| 7 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 long | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 coast | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 coast | det |
| 10 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sight | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 long | punct |
| 12 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 went | nsubj |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 went | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 revealed | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 32 revealed | cc |
| 17 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 sea | advmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 party | det |
| 19 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sea | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 sea | cop |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 sea | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 sea | det |
| 23 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 sea | amod |
| 24 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 revealed | nsubj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 Rung | punct |
| 26 | Su | Su | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Rung | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 Rung | punct |
| 28 | Rung | Rung | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 sea | appos |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 wicked | det |
| 30 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 Rung | amod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 sea | punct |
| 32 | revealed | reveal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 went | conj |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 designs | nmod:poss |
| 34 | designs | design | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 revealed | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | misfortunes = misfortune | as sight; of the coast | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | past | things | long, well property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the party | the open sea | Su Rung appos | tree rules | |||
| 4 | reveal | past | the open sea | Sea's designs | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent design=Topic | ||||
| 5 | design | Sea | nom design «act 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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