Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 7, sentence 132
They made their way to the hollow tree where Ki-Si had discovered his treasure and through it descended into the cave.
Who acts: brands, treasure, Si · What happens: make, discover, descend, treasure · To what, where: way, Ki, cave
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 (brands, treasure, Si), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 made | nsubj |
| 2 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 way | nmod:poss |
| 4 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 made | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 tree | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 tree | det |
| 7 | hollow | hollow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 tree | amod |
| 8 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 made | obl |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 discovered | advmod |
| 10 | Ki | Ki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 discovered | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 Si | punct |
| 12 | Si | Si | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Ki | conj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 discovered | aux |
| 14 | discovered | discover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 tree | acl:relcl |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 treasure | nmod:poss |
| 16 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 discovered | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 descended | cc |
| 18 | through | through | SCONJ | _ | 20 descended | mark |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 descended | nsubj |
| 20 | descended | descend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 made | conj |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 cave | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 cave | det |
| 23 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 descended | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | brands = brand | brands's way | to the hollow tree | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset way=Product | |||
| 2 | discover | past · perfect · passive | Ki and Si | Si's treasure obj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | descend | past | treasure | the cave | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into cave=Location | ||||
| 4 | treasure | Si | nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=agent |
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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