Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4, sentence 48
Instead of retracing their steps at once they continued on their way to the neighboring village and were the first ones to find the baby which Yeng-Si had left there a half hour or so before.
Who acts: steps, clutches · What happens: retrace, continue, neighbor, be, find, leave · To what, where: steps, way, first ones, baby, Yeng
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 (steps, clutches), 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 | Instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=SCONJ | 3 retracing | mark |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 1 Instead | fixed |
| 3 | retracing | retrace | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 continued | advcl |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 steps | nmod:poss |
| 5 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 retracing | obj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 once | case |
| 7 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 9 continued | obl |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 continued | nsubj |
| 9 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 way | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 way | nmod:poss |
| 12 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 continued | obl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 village | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 village | det |
| 15 | neighboring | neighbor | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 village | amod |
| 16 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 way | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 ones | cc |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 ones | cop |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 ones | det |
| 20 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 21 ones | amod |
| 21 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 continued | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 find | mark |
| 23 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 continued | advcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 baby | det |
| 25 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 find | obj |
| 26 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 left | obj |
| 27 | Yeng | Yeng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 left | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 Si | punct |
| 29 | Si | Si | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Yeng | flat |
| 30 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 left | aux |
| 31 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 baby | acl:relcl |
| 32 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 31 left | advmod |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 hour | det |
| 34 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 35 hour | compound |
| 35 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 left | obl:unmarked |
| 36 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 37 so | cc |
| 37 | so | so | ADV | _ | 38 before | advmod |
| 38 | before | before | ADV | _ | 9 continued | advmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | retrace | gerund | steps = step not said here | clutches's steps | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | continue | past | steps = step | steps's way to the neighboring village | before property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | neighbor | gerund | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | is a | past | steps = step not said here | the first ones | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | find | to-infinitive | steps = step not said here | the baby | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Topic | ||||
| 6 | leave | past · perfect · passive | Yeng | there | hour | the baby obj | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme which=Attribute | ||
| 7 | step | clutches = clutch | nom step «act 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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