Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6, sentence 146
Now it so happened that the beautiful house and this fairy garden were the residence and place of recreation for the young King whom Ja-Jo-Mi, the unscrupulous, in his wickedness, had exiled, as we have previously seen.
Who acts: it, beautiful house, we · What happens: happen, be, exile, see · To what, where: residence
This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, beautiful house, we), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 happened | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 happened | nsubj |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 happened | advmod |
| 4 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 residence | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 house | det |
| 7 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 house | amod |
| 8 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 residence | nsubj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 garden | cc |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 garden | det |
| 11 | fairy | fairy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 garden | amod |
| 12 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 house | conj |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 residence | cop |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 residence | det |
| 15 | residence | residence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 happened | advcl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 place | cc |
| 17 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 residence | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 recreation | case |
| 19 | recreation | recreation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 place | nmod |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 King | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 King | det |
| 22 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 King | amod |
| 23 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 place | nmod |
| 24 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 unscrupulous | advmod |
| 25 | Ja | Ja | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 unscrupulous | nsubj |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 Jo | punct |
| 27 | Jo | Jo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Ja | flat |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 Mi | punct |
| 29 | Mi | Mi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Ja | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 unscrupulous | punct |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 unscrupulous | det |
| 32 | unscrupulous | unscrupulous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 King | amod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 wickedness | punct |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 wickedness | case |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 wickedness | nmod:poss |
| 36 | wickedness | wickedness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 unscrupulous | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 exiled | punct |
| 38 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 exiled | aux |
| 39 | exiled | exile | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 happened | conj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 seen | punct |
| 41 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 45 seen | mark |
| 42 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 45 seen | nsubj |
| 43 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 45 seen | aux |
| 44 | previously | previously | ADV | _ | 45 seen | advmod |
| 45 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 39 exiled | advcl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | it | now | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | the beautiful house and this fairy garden | the residence and place of recreation for the young King | place of recreation for the young King conj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | exile | past · perfect | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | see | present · perfect | we | previously property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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