Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4, sentence 82
Su-Rung made no opposition, although he preferred that his adopted son take a traveling companion.
Who acts: Su, Rung, adopted son · What happens: make, prefer, adopt, take · To what, where: opposition, traveling companion
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, Rung, adopted son), 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 | Su | Su | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 made | nsubj |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Rung | punct |
| 3 | Rung | Rung | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Su | conj |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 opposition | det |
| 6 | opposition | opposition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 preferred | punct |
| 8 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 10 preferred | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 preferred | nsubj |
| 10 | preferred | prefer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | conj |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 take | mark |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 son | nmod:poss |
| 13 | adopted | adopt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 son | amod |
| 14 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 take | nsubj |
| 15 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 preferred | ccomp |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 companion | det |
| 17 | traveling | traveling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 companion | compound |
| 18 | companion | companion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 take | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | Su and Rung | no opposition | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opposition=Product | ||||
| 2 | prefer | past | Rung | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | adopt | participle | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | take | infinitive | Rung's adopted son | a traveling companion | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent companion=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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