Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6, sentence 88
The reader will recall how the adorable Cheng-Si, daughter of the unfortunate Sun-Yen, had agreed, in order to procure help for her father, to become the victim that the Korean merchants were to offer the hungry monsters of the Yellow Sea.
Who acts: reader, Korean merchants · What happens: recall, agree, procure, become, offer · To what, where: adorable Cheng, help, victim, hungry monsters
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 (reader, Korean merchants), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 reader | det |
| 2 | reader | reader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 recall | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 recall | aux |
| 4 | recall | recall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 agreed | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Cheng | det |
| 7 | adorable | adorable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Cheng | amod |
| 8 | Cheng | Cheng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 agreed | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 Si | punct |
| 10 | Si | Si | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Cheng | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 daughter | punct |
| 12 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Cheng | appos |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Sun | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Sun | det |
| 15 | unfortunate | unfortunate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Sun | amod |
| 16 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 daughter | nmod |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 Yen | punct |
| 18 | Yen | Yen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Sun | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Cheng | punct |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 agreed | aux |
| 21 | agreed | agree | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 recall | advcl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 procure | punct |
| 23 | in | in | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 26 procure | mark |
| 24 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 in | fixed |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 procure | mark |
| 26 | procure | procure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 recall | conj |
| 27 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 procure | obj |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 father | case |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 father | nmod:poss |
| 30 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 procure | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 become | punct |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 become | mark |
| 33 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 procure | conj |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 victim | det |
| 35 | victim | victim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 become | xcomp |
| 36 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 42 offer | mark |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 merchants | det |
| 38 | Korean | korean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 merchants | amod |
| 39 | merchants | merchant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 offer | nsubj |
| 40 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 offer | aux |
| 41 | to | to | PART | _ | 42 offer | mark |
| 42 | offer | offer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 victim | acl |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 monsters | det |
| 44 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 monsters | amod |
| 45 | monsters | monster | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 offer | obj |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 49 Sea | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 Sea | det |
| 48 | Yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 Sea | amod |
| 49 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 monsters | nmod |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 recall | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recall | future | the reader | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | agree speech: agree | past · perfect · passive | the adorable Cheng and Si | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 3 | procure | to-infinitive | the reader not said here | help | for reader's father | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent help=Theme for father=Beneficiary | |||
| 4 | become | to-infinitive | the reader not said here | the victim | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | offer | past | the Korean merchants | the hungry monsters of the Yellow Sea | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent monster=Theme |
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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