Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6, sentence 79
However, the most urgent matter now was to go to the succour of the young exile and San-Syeng took immediate steps to leave for Cho-To.
What happens: be, take, leave, succour · To what, where: immediate steps, succour, young exile
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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 10 go | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 matter | det |
| 4 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 5 urgent | advmod |
| 5 | urgent | urgent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 matter | amod |
| 6 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 go | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 go | advmod |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 go | cop |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 go | mark |
| 10 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 succour | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 succour | det |
| 13 | succour | succour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 took | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 exile | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 exile | det |
| 16 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 exile | amod |
| 17 | exile | exile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 succour | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 San | cc |
| 19 | San | San | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 exile | conj |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 Syeng | punct |
| 21 | Syeng | Syeng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 San | flat |
| 22 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 go | parataxis |
| 23 | immediate | immediate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 steps | amod |
| 24 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 took | obj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 leave | mark |
| 26 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 steps | acl |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 Cho | case |
| 28 | Cho | Cho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 leave | obl |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 To | punct |
| 30 | To | To | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Cho | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | now | the urgent matter obl:unmarked; go, however property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | past | immediate steps | the succour of the young exile and San | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent step=Theme to succour=Destination | ||||
| 3 | leave | to-infinitive | immediate steps not said here | for Cho and To | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent for cho=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | succour | the young exile and San | nom succour «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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