Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4, sentence 37
The latter feared that Su-Rung in his fury would do harm if he succeeded in coming upon the fugitives and Su-Yeng wished to be present to protect them should the worst come to the worst.
Who acts: latter, Su Rung, Rung, Su, present · What happens: fear, do, succeed, come, wish, be · To what, where: harm, fugitives, Su, worst · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (latter, Su Rung, Rung, Su), 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 | 2 latter | det |
| 2 | latter | latter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 feared | nsubj |
| 3 | feared | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 do | mark |
| 5 | Su | Su | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Rung | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Su | punct |
| 7 | Rung | Rung | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 do | nsubj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 fury | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 fury | nmod:poss |
| 10 | fury | fury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Rung | nmod |
| 11 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 do | aux |
| 12 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 feared | ccomp |
| 13 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 do | obj |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 succeeded | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 succeeded | nsubj |
| 16 | succeeded | succeed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 do | advcl |
| 17 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 18 coming | mark |
| 18 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 succeeded | advcl |
| 19 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 21 fugitives | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 fugitives | det |
| 21 | fugitives | fugitive | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 coming | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 wished | cc |
| 23 | Su | Su | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 wished | nsubj |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 Yeng | punct |
| 25 | Yeng | Yeng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Su | conj |
| 26 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 succeeded | conj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 present | mark |
| 28 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 present | cop |
| 29 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 come | nsubj |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 protect | mark |
| 31 | protect | protect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 present | advcl |
| 32 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 protect | obj |
| 33 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 come | aux |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 come | det |
| 35 | worst | bad | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 36 come | nsubj |
| 36 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 wished | ccomp |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 worst | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 worst | det |
| 39 | worst | bad | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 36 come | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 feared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fear | past | the latter | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | do | would | Su Rung in Rung's fury | harm | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harm=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | succeed a condition, not said to happen | past | Rung | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | come | gerund | Rung not said here | the fugitives | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon fugitive=Location | ||||
| 5 | wish | past | Su and Yeng | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | is | to-infinitive | present property | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | protect | to-infinitive | Su | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary | |||||
| 8 | come | should | present | the worst | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bad=Initial_Location | ||||
| 9 | infuriate | Rung | nom fury «feeling transitive»: 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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