Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4, sentence 97
It seems, in fact, that Su-Rung found the child abandoned by the roadside and took him home and raised him.
Who acts: It, Su · What happens: seem, find, abandon, take, raise · To what, where: child, son
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 (It, Su), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 seems | nsubj |
| 2 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 fact | punct |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 fact | case |
| 5 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 seems | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 found | punct |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 found | mark |
| 8 | Su | Su | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 found | nsubj |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Su | punct |
| 10 | Rung | Rung | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Su | flat |
| 11 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 seems | parataxis |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 child | det |
| 13 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 found | obj |
| 14 | abandoned | abandon | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 child | acl |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 roadside | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 roadside | det |
| 17 | roadside | roadside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 abandoned | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 took | cc |
| 19 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 found | conj |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 took | obj |
| 21 | home | home | ADV | _ | 19 took | advmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 raised | cc |
| 23 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 took | conj |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 raised | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 seems | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | present | It | in fact | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Theme in fact=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | find | past | Su | the child | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Topic | ||||
| 3 | abandon | participle | the child not said here | by the roadside | vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | take | past | Su not said here | son | home property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination | |||
| 5 | raise | past | Su not said here | son | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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