Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 3, sentence 7
The three months soon came to an end and the merchant returned to remind her of her promise.
Who acts: three months, merchant, thought · What happens: come, return, remind, promise · To what, where: end, thought
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 (three months, merchant, thought), 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 months | det |
| 2 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 months | nummod |
| 3 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 came | nsubj |
| 4 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 came | advmod |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 end | case |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 end | det |
| 8 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 returned | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 merchant | det |
| 11 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 returned | nsubj |
| 12 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 remind | mark |
| 14 | remind | remind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 returned | advcl |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 remind | iobj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 promise | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 promise | nmod:poss |
| 18 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 remind | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the three months | to a end | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to end=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | return | past | the merchant | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | remind speech: other | to-infinitive | the merchant not said here | thought | of thought's promise | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent she=Recipient of promise=Topic | |||
| 4 | promise | thought | nom promise «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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