Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6, sentence 147
His captivity had already lasted for several months.
What happens: last · To what, where: captivity
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: 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 captivity | nmod:poss |
| 2 | captivity | captivity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lasted | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lasted | aux |
| 4 | already | already | ADV | _ | 5 lasted | advmod |
| 5 | lasted | last | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 months | case |
| 7 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 months | amod |
| 8 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 lasted | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lasted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | last | past · perfect · passive | Mi's captivity | month | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: subject=Value |
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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