Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 3, sentence 87
Su-Rung, however, ordered his sailors to turn about and rescue the unhappy woman.
Who acts: Su, sailors · What happens: order, turn about, rescue · To what, where: sailors, unhappy woman
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 (Su, sailors), 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 | Su | Su | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 ordered | nsubj |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Rung | punct |
| 3 | Rung | Rung | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Su | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Su | punct |
| 5 | however | however | ADV | _ | 7 ordered | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 however | punct |
| 7 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 sailors | nmod:poss |
| 9 | sailors | sailor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 ordered | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 turn | mark |
| 11 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 ordered | xcomp |
| 12 | about | about | ADV | _ | 11 turn | advmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 rescue | cc |
| 14 | rescue | rescue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 turn | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 woman | det |
| 16 | unhappy | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 woman | amod |
| 17 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 rescue | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past | Su and Rung | husband's sailors | however property | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent sailor=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | turn about not said to happen | to-infinitive | husband's sailors not said here | about property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | rescue | present | husband's sailors not said here | the unhappy woman | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=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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