Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 3, sentence 72
They discussed in low tones the peril which threatened them and how it would be possible to escape.
Who acts: things, peril, it · What happens: discuss, threaten, be, escape · To what, where: low tones, things
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 (things, peril, it), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 discussed | nsubj |
| 2 | discussed | discuss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 tones | case |
| 4 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 tones | amod |
| 5 | tones | tone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 discussed | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 peril | det |
| 7 | peril | peril | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tones | appos |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 threatened | nsubj |
| 9 | threatened | threaten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 peril | acl:relcl |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 threatened | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 possible | cc |
| 12 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 possible | advmod |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 possible | nsubj |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 possible | aux |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 possible | cop |
| 16 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 threatened | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 escape | mark |
| 18 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 possible | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 discussed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | discuss speech: other | past | things = thing | low tones | vn chit_chat-37.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | threaten | past | the peril | things = thing | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | is | would | it | possible property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | escape | to-infinitive | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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