Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4, sentence 84
San-Syeng had been gone several weeks when he came to a beautiful little village where he counted upon remaining but a short while.
Who acts: San · What happens: be, come, count, remain · To what, where: gone several weeks, beautiful little village
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), 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 | San | San | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 came | nsubj |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 San | punct |
| 3 | Syeng | Syeng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 San | flat |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 weeks | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 weeks | cop |
| 6 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 weeks | amod |
| 7 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 weeks | amod |
| 8 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 San | nmod |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 came | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 came | nsubj |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 village | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 village | det |
| 14 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 village | amod |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 village | amod |
| 16 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | obl |
| 17 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 19 counted | advmod |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 counted | nsubj |
| 19 | counted | count | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 village | acl:relcl |
| 20 | upon | upon | SCONJ | _ | 21 remaining | mark |
| 21 | remaining | remain | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 counted | advcl |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 while | cc |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 while | det |
| 24 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 while | amod |
| 25 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 remaining | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past · perfect | gone several weeks | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | come | past | San | a beautiful little village | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to village=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | count | past | San | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | remain | gerund | San not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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