Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4, sentence 79
From this day on, San-Syeng was constantly preoccupied with thoughts as to who his parents might be.
What happens: preoccupy, be · To what, where: San
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: 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 day | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 day | det |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 preoccupied | obl |
| 4 | on | on | ADV | _ | 3 day | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 day | punct |
| 6 | San | San | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 preoccupied | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 San | punct |
| 8 | Syeng | Syeng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 San | flat |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 preoccupied | aux:pass |
| 10 | constantly | constantly | ADV | _ | 11 preoccupied | advmod |
| 11 | preoccupied | preoccupy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 thoughts | case |
| 13 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 preoccupied | obl |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 who | mark |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 as | fixed |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 preoccupied | parataxis |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 parents | nmod:poss |
| 18 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 be | nsubj |
| 19 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 be | aux |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 who | cop |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 preoccupied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | preoccupy | past · passive | San | day | with thoughts; constantly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | is a | infinitive | tree rules |
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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