Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 5, sentence 173
He arrived there when there was great excitement among the people of the city because of the death of the King and the exile of the young Prince to the Isle of Cho-To, events upon which we shall comment in the coming stage of our story.
Who acts: San, we, King · What happens: arrive, be, comment, come, die · To what, where: great excitement, Isle, coming stage
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 (San, we, King), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 arrived | nsubj |
| 2 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 arrived | advmod |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 was | advmod |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 was | expl |
| 6 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 arrived | advcl |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 excitement | amod |
| 8 | excitement | excitement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 arrived | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | among | among | ADP | _ | 11 people | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 people | det |
| 11 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 arrived | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 city | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 city | det |
| 14 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 people | nmod |
| 15 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 18 death | case |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 because | fixed |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 death | det |
| 18 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 arrived | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 King | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 King | det |
| 21 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 death | nmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 exile | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 exile | det |
| 24 | exile | exile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 King | conj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Prince | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Prince | det |
| 27 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 Prince | amod |
| 28 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 exile | nmod |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 Isle | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Isle | det |
| 31 | Isle | Isle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 arrived | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 Cho | case |
| 33 | Cho | Cho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Isle | nmod |
| 34 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 35 To | punct |
| 35 | To | To | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Cho | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 events | punct |
| 37 | events | event | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 Isle | appos |
| 38 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 39 which | case |
| 39 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 42 comment | obl |
| 40 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 42 comment | nsubj |
| 41 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 42 comment | aux |
| 42 | comment | comment | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 events | parataxis |
| 43 | in | in | ADP | _ | 46 stage | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 stage | det |
| 45 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 46 stage | amod |
| 46 | stage | stage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 comment | obl |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 49 story | case |
| 48 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 49 story | nmod:poss |
| 49 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 stage | nmod |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | San | great excitement | the Isle of Cho and To; there | among the people of the city; because the death of the King and the exile of the young Prince | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to isle=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | be | past | San not said here | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | comment speech: other | shall | we | the coming stage of our story | upon events | vn lecture-37.11-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | come | gerund | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | die | the King and the exile of the young Prince | nom death «event intransitive»: of=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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