Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4, sentence 80
In order to more easily solve this problem he determined to travel through the country, thinking that some day he would be able to discover those to whom he owed his birth.
Who acts: San, day · What happens: solve, determine, travel, think, be, discover · To what, where: problem, order, country, those, birth · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (San, day), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 order | case |
| 2 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 solve | obl |
| 3 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 6 solve | mark |
| 4 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 easily | advmod |
| 5 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 6 solve | advmod |
| 6 | solve | solve | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 problem | det |
| 8 | problem | problem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 solve | obj |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 determined | nsubj |
| 10 | determined | determine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 problem | acl:relcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 travel | mark |
| 12 | travel | travel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 determined | xcomp |
| 13 | through | through | ADP | _ | 15 country | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 country | det |
| 15 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 travel | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 thinking | punct |
| 17 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 travel | advcl |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 able | mark |
| 19 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 day | det |
| 20 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 able | nsubj |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 able | nsubj |
| 22 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 able | aux |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 able | cop |
| 24 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 thinking | ccomp |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 discover | mark |
| 26 | discover | discover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 able | xcomp |
| 27 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 26 discover | obj |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 whom | case |
| 29 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 discover | obl |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 owed | nsubj |
| 31 | owed | owe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 whom | acl:relcl |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 birth | nmod:poss |
| 33 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 owed | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 solve | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | solve | to-infinitive | this problem | order | easily property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent problem=Topic | |||
| 2 | determine | past | San | this problem not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | travel | to-infinitive | San not said here | the country | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through country=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other | gerund | San not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is | would | some day | San nsubj; able property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | discover | to-infinitive | some day not said here | those | whom obl | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Topic | |||
| 7 | owe | past | San | San's birth | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent birth=Theme |
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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