Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4, sentence 127
The only people who live in that large house are his wife and his daughter.”
Who acts: only people · What happens: live, be · To what, where: large house, wife
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 (only people), 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 people | det |
| 2 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 people | amod |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 wife | nsubj |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 live | nsubj |
| 5 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 people | acl:relcl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 house | case |
| 7 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 house | det |
| 8 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 house | amod |
| 9 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 live | obl |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 wife | cop |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 wife | nmod:poss |
| 12 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 daughter | cc |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 15 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wife | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 wife | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 wife | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | the only people | that large house | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | the only people | Sa's wife and Sa's daughter | Sa nmod:poss; Sa's daughter conj | 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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