Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4, sentence 49
Quite pleased at his unusual discovery Su-Rung took the little being and carried it home with him where he confided it to a nurse, instructing her to take the greatest care of the little boy.
Who acts: pleased, Rung, little boy · What happens: take, carry, confide, instruct, discover, care · To what, where: discovery, nurse, Yeng, greatest care
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 (pleased, Rung, little boy), 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 | Quite | quite | ADV | _ | 2 pleased | advmod |
| 2 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 took | nsubj |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 discovery | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 discovery | nmod:poss |
| 5 | unusual | unusual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 discovery | amod |
| 6 | discovery | discovery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pleased | obl |
| 7 | Su | Su | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 discovery | appos |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 Rung | punct |
| 9 | Rung | Rung | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Su | conj |
| 10 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 little | det |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 being | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 took | ccomp |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 carried | cc |
| 15 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 took | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 carried | obj |
| 17 | home | home | ADV | _ | 15 carried | advmod |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 carried | obl |
| 20 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 22 confided | advmod |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 confided | nsubj |
| 22 | confided | confide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 carried | conj |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 confided | obj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 nurse | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 nurse | det |
| 26 | nurse | nurse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 confided | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 instructing | punct |
| 28 | instructing | instruct | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 confided | advcl |
| 29 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 instructing | obj |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 take | mark |
| 31 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 instructing | xcomp |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 care | det |
| 33 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 34 care | amod |
| 34 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 take | obj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 boy | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 boy | det |
| 37 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 boy | amod |
| 38 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 care | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | pleased at Rung's unusual discovery | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | carry | past | pleased at Rung's unusual discovery not said here | discovery | with Rung; home property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 3 | confide speech: other | past | Rung | discovery | a nurse | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to nurse=Recipient | |||
| 4 | instruct speech: other | gerund | Rung not said here | Yeng | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | take | to-infinitive | Rung not said here | the greatest care of the little boy | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme | ||||
| 6 | discover | Rung | nom discovery «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | care | the little boy | nom care «act intransitive»: of=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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