Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 5, sentence 156
The servant returned and received the assurance that no one had left the room which he had been guarding.
Who acts: servant, one, room · What happens: return, receive, leave, guard · To what, where: assurance, room
This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servant, one, room), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 servant | det |
| 2 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 returned | nsubj |
| 3 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 received | cc |
| 5 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 returned | conj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 assurance | det |
| 7 | assurance | assurance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 received | obj |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 left | mark |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 one | det |
| 10 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 left | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 left | aux |
| 12 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 received | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 room | det |
| 14 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 left | obj |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 guarding | nsubj |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 guarding | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 guarding | aux |
| 18 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 guarding | aux |
| 19 | guarding | guard | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 room | acl:relcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | the servant | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | receive | past | the servant not said here | the assurance | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent assurance=Theme | ||||
| 3 | leave | past · perfect | no one | the room | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Theme | ||||
| 4 | guard | past · perfect · progressive | the room | servant nsubj | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent |
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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