Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4, sentence 107
Shortly afterward, San-Syeng came to the village of Yen-Yu, where he decided to tarry for a few days to recover from the fatigue of his travels.
Who acts: San · What happens: come, decide, tarry, recover, travel · To what, where: village, fatigue
This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (San), 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 | Shortly | shortly | ADV | _ | 2 afterward | advmod |
| 2 | afterward | afterward | ADV | _ | 7 came | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 afterward | punct |
| 4 | San | San | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 came | nsubj |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 San | punct |
| 6 | Syeng | Syeng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 San | flat |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 village | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 village | det |
| 10 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Yu | case |
| 12 | Yen | Yen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Yu | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 Yu | punct |
| 14 | Yu | Yu | PROPN | _ | 10 village | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 decided | punct |
| 16 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 decided | advmod |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 decided | nsubj |
| 18 | decided | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 Yu | acl:relcl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 tarry | mark |
| 20 | tarry | tarry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 decided | xcomp |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 days | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 days | det |
| 23 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 days | amod |
| 24 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 tarry | obl |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 recover | mark |
| 26 | recover | recover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 tarry | advcl |
| 27 | from | from | ADP | _ | 29 fatigue | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 fatigue | det |
| 29 | fatigue | fatigue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 recover | obl |
| 30 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 32 travels | mark |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 travels | nmod:poss |
| 32 | travels | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 fatigue | advcl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | San | the village of Yen Yu | afterward property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to village=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | decide | past | San | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | tarry not said to happen | to-infinitive | San not said here | day | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | recover | to-infinitive | San not said here | the fatigue | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from fatigue=Source | ||||
| 5 | travel | present | San not said here | San nmod:poss | vn run-51.3.2-1 «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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