Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6, sentence 156
A rope tightly attached to the bough of a tree at one end with the other end passed around his neck would be his instrument of deliverance.
What happens: attach, pass, be · To what, where: rope, one end, instrument
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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 rope | det |
| 2 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 attached | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | tightly | tightly | ADV | _ | 4 attached | advmod |
| 4 | attached | attach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 bough | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bough | det |
| 7 | bough | bough | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 attached | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 tree | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 tree | det |
| 10 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bough | nmod |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 end | case |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 end | nummod |
| 13 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 passed | obl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 end | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 end | det |
| 16 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 end | amod |
| 17 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 end | nmod |
| 18 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 attached | parataxis |
| 19 | around | around | ADP | _ | 21 neck | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 neck | nmod:poss |
| 21 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 passed | obl |
| 22 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 instrument | aux |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 instrument | cop |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 instrument | nmod:poss |
| 25 | instrument | instrument | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 passed | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 deliverance | case |
| 27 | deliverance | deliverance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 instrument | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 attached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attach | participle · passive | a rope | to the bough of a tree; tightly property | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient to bough=Co-Patient | ||||
| 2 | pass | past | at one end with the other end | around Prince's neck | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at end=Location | ||||
| 3 | is a | would | Prince's instrument | of deliverance; Prince nmod:poss | tree rules |
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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