Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4, sentence 52
The murderer of San-Houni gave all his time to the education of the child he had adopted.
Who acts: murderer · What happens: give, adopt, educate · To what, where: education, child
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 (murderer), 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 murderer | det |
| 2 | murderer | murderer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 San | case |
| 4 | San | San | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 murderer | nmod |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Houni | punct |
| 6 | Houni | Houni | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 San | flat |
| 7 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 time | det:predet |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 time | nmod:poss |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gave | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 education | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 education | det |
| 13 | education | education | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gave | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 child | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 child | det |
| 16 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 education | nmod |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 adopted | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 adopted | aux |
| 19 | adopted | adopt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 child | acl:relcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the murderer of San | the education of the child | time | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to education=Recipient | |||
| 2 | adopt | past · perfect | murderer | the child not said here | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme | ||||
| 3 | educate | the child | nom education «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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