Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6, sentence 81
In vain did San-Syeng try to evade the vigilance of the soldiers who were guarding the shore.
Who acts: San, soldiers · What happens: do, try, evade, guard · To what, where: vain, vigilance, shore
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, soldiers), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 vain | case |
| 2 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 did | obl |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | San | San | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 try | nsubj |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 San | punct |
| 6 | Syeng | Syeng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 San | flat |
| 7 | try | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | ccomp |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 evade | mark |
| 9 | evade | evade | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 try | xcomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 vigilance | det |
| 11 | vigilance | vigilance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 evade | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 soldiers | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 soldiers | det |
| 14 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 vigilance | nmod |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 guarding | nsubj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 guarding | aux |
| 17 | guarding | guard | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 soldiers | acl:relcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 shore | det |
| 19 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 guarding | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | vain | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | try | present | San | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | evade not said to happen | to-infinitive | San not said here | the vigilance of the soldiers | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent vigilance=Location | ||||
| 4 | guard | past · progressive | the soldiers | the shore | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shore=Beneficiary |
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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