Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4, sentence 50
Several times Su-Rung questioned his brother concerning the escape of the two women.
Who acts: Su, two women · What happens: question, concern, escape · To what, where: brother, escape
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 (Su, two women), 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 | Several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 times | amod |
| 2 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 questioned | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | Su | Su | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 questioned | nsubj |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Rung | punct |
| 5 | Rung | Rung | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Su | conj |
| 6 | questioned | question | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 brother | nmod:poss |
| 8 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 questioned | obj |
| 9 | concerning | concern | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 questioned | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 escape | det |
| 11 | escape | escape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 concerning | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 women | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 women | det |
| 14 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 women | nummod |
| 15 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 escape | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 questioned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | question speech: other | past | Su and Rung | Rung's brother | time | vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Recipient | |||
| 2 | concern | gerund | Su and Rung not said here | the escape of the two women | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus escape=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | escape | the two women | nom escape «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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