Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6, sentence 77
San-Syeng had heard the man whom he regarded as a father spoken of as a thief and now he was pictured as an assassin.
Who acts: San · What happens: hear, regard, speak, picture · To what, where: San, man, father · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (San), 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 | San | San | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 San | punct |
| 3 | Syeng | Syeng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 San | flat |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 heard | aux |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | obj |
| 8 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 regarded | obj |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 regarded | nsubj |
| 10 | regarded | regard | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 man | acl:relcl |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 father | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 father | det |
| 13 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 regarded | obl |
| 14 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 father | acl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 thief | case |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 thief | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 thief | det |
| 18 | thief | thief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 spoken | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 pictured | cc |
| 20 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 pictured | advmod |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 pictured | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 pictured | aux:pass |
| 23 | pictured | picture | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 regarded | conj |
| 24 | as | as | ADP | _ | 26 assassin | case |
| 25 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 assassin | det |
| 26 | assassin | assassin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 pictured | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past · perfect · passive | San | the man obj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | regard | past | San | the man | as a father | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent whom=Theme as father=Value | |||
| 3 | speak speech: other | participle | a father not said here | of a thief | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | picture | past · passive | San | now | as a assassin | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme as assassin=Attribute |
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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