Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 7, sentence 101
When they had gone home and had finished their evening repast, Ki-Si said to the young girl:
Who acts: words, evening repast · What happens: go, finish, say · To what, where: young girl · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (words, evening repast), 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 | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 gone | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gone | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gone | aux |
| 4 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | home | home | ADV | _ | 4 gone | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 finished | cc |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 finished | aux |
| 8 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 gone | conj |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 repast | nmod:poss |
| 10 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 repast | compound |
| 11 | repast | repast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Ki | punct |
| 13 | Ki | Ki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 repast | appos |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 Si | punct |
| 15 | Si | Si | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Ki | conj |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 finished | parataxis |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 girl | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 girl | det |
| 19 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 girl | amod |
| 20 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 said | obl |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · perfect | words = word | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | finish | past · perfect | words = word not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | words's evening repast | the young girl | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to girl=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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