Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 3, sentence 70
The terrible thing about all this was that San-Houni and his wife had overheard the brothers.
What happens: overhear · To what, where: this, terrible thing
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: 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 thing | det |
| 2 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 thing | amod |
| 3 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 16 overheard | mark |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 overheard | det:predet |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 overheard | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 overheard | aux:pass |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 overheard | mark |
| 9 | San | San | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 overheard | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 San | punct |
| 11 | Houni | Houni | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 San | flat |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 wife | cc |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 wife | nmod:poss |
| 14 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 San | conj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 overheard | aux |
| 16 | overheard | overhear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 thing | acl:relcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 brothers | det |
| 18 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 overheard | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overhear | past · perfect · passive | this | San and San's wife nsubj:pass; the brothers obj | tree rules |
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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