Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6, sentence 89
When the vessel that bore the young girl had reached the open sea and the merchants had finished a session of prayer, they summoned Cheng-Si before them.
Who acts: vessel, merchants · What happens: bear, reach, finish, summon · To what, where: young girl, vessel, merchants, Cheng Si
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 (vessel, 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 10 reached | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 vessel | det |
| 3 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 reached | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 bore | nsubj |
| 5 | bore | bear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 vessel | acl:relcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 girl | det |
| 7 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 girl | amod |
| 8 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bore | obj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 reached | aux |
| 10 | reached | reach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 summoned | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sea | det |
| 12 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 sea | amod |
| 13 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 reached | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 finished | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 merchants | det |
| 16 | merchants | merchant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 finished | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 finished | aux |
| 18 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 reached | conj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 session | det |
| 20 | session | session | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 finished | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 prayer | case |
| 22 | prayer | prayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 session | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 reached | punct |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 summoned | nsubj |
| 25 | summoned | summon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 26 | Cheng | Cheng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Si | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 Cheng | punct |
| 28 | Si | Si | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 summoned | obj |
| 29 | before | before | ADP | _ | 30 them | case |
| 30 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 summoned | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 summoned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | past | the vessel | the young girl | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Patient | ||||
| 2 | reach | past · perfect · passive | the vessel | the open sea obj | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary sea=Theme | ||||
| 3 | finish | past · perfect · passive | the merchants | a session of prayer obj | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | summon | past | merchants = merchant | Cheng Si | before Cheng | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent si=Recipient |
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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