Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6, sentence 51
On the street corners, bolder groups were wont to gather and discuss matters vigorously.
Who acts: bolder groups, wont · What happens: be, gather, discuss, matter · To what, where: street corners
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 (bolder groups, wont), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 corners | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 corners | det |
| 3 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 corners | compound |
| 4 | corners | corner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 wont | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 corners | punct |
| 6 | bolder | bold | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 groups | amod |
| 7 | groups | group | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 wont | nsubj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 wont | cop |
| 9 | wont | wont | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 matters | nsubj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 gather | mark |
| 11 | gather | gather | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 wont | xcomp |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 discuss | cc |
| 13 | discuss | discuss | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 gather | conj |
| 14 | matters | matter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | vigorously | vigorously | ADV | _ | 14 matters | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 matters | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | bolder groups | the street corners | wont property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | gather | to-infinitive | bolder groups not said here | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | discuss speech: other | infinitive | bolder groups not said here | vn chit_chat-37.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | matter | present | wont | vigorously property | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
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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