Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4, sentence 123
His first action, therefore, on arriving at the village inn, was to inquire:
Who acts: first action, beautiful unknown · What happens: arrive, be, act · To what, where: village inn
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 (first action, beautiful unknown), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 action | nmod:poss |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 action | amod |
| 3 | action | action | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 inquire | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 action | punct |
| 5 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 16 inquire | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 therefore | punct |
| 7 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 8 arriving | mark |
| 8 | arriving | arrive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 inquire | advcl |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 inn | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 inn | det |
| 11 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 inn | compound |
| 12 | inn | inn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 arriving | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 arriving | punct |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 inquire | cop |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 inquire | mark |
| 16 | inquire | inquire | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 inquire | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | gerund | beautiful unknown's first action not said here | the village inn | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | beautiful unknown's first action | inquire, therefore property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | act | beautiful unknown = unknown | nom action «act intransitive»: 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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