Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 7, sentence 152
San-Syeng had been waiting impatiently for several months for an opportunity to penetrate the defenses of the island of Cho-To where the young King was exiled.
Who acts: San · What happens: wait, penetrate, exile · To what, where: defenses, young King
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 (San), 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 | San | San | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 waiting | nsubj |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 San | punct |
| 3 | Syeng | Syeng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 San | flat |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 waiting | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 waiting | aux |
| 6 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | impatiently | impatiently | ADV | _ | 6 waiting | advmod |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 months | case |
| 9 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 months | amod |
| 10 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 waiting | obl |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 opportunity | case |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 opportunity | det |
| 13 | opportunity | opportunity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 months | nmod |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 penetrate | mark |
| 15 | penetrate | penetrate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 opportunity | acl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 defenses | det |
| 17 | defenses | defense | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 penetrate | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 island | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 island | det |
| 20 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 defenses | nmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Cho | case |
| 22 | Cho | Cho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 island | nmod |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 exiled | punct |
| 24 | To | to | SCONJ | _ | 30 exiled | mark |
| 25 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 30 exiled | advmod |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 King | det |
| 27 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 King | amod |
| 28 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 exiled | nsubj |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 exiled | aux:pass |
| 30 | exiled | exile | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 penetrate | advcl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 waiting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | past · perfect · progressive | San | month | impatiently property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | penetrate | to-infinitive | San not said here | the defenses of the island of Cho | vn poke-19 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent defense=Patient | ||||
| 3 | exile | past · passive | the young King | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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