Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4, sentence 13
They were going to the neighboring village to place the child at a street corner and then return to the temple.
Who acts: wrappings · What happens: go, neighbor, return · To what, where: neighboring village
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 (wrappings), 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 | 3 going | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 going | aux |
| 3 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 village | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 village | det |
| 6 | neighboring | neighbor | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 village | amod |
| 7 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 going | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 place | mark |
| 9 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 village | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 child | det |
| 11 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 place | obj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 corner | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 corner | det |
| 14 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 corner | compound |
| 15 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 child | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 return | cc |
| 17 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 return | advmod |
| 18 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 going | conj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 temple | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 temple | det |
| 21 | temple | temple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 return | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · progressive | wrappings = wrapping | the neighboring village and place the child | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to village=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | neighbor | gerund | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | return | infinitive | wrappings = wrapping not said here | then | to the temple result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to temple=Result |
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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