Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 7, sentence 157
On the strength of his dream, San-Syeng immediately began preparations for his journey to the spot that had been indicated to him.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: begin, indicate, dream, journey · To what, where: preparations, strength, spot, Prince
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 (Prince), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 strength | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 strength | det |
| 3 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 began | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 dream | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 dream | nmod:poss |
| 6 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 strength | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 San | punct |
| 8 | San | San | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 strength | nmod |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 Syeng | punct |
| 10 | Syeng | Syeng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 San | flat |
| 11 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 12 began | advmod |
| 12 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | preparations | preparation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 began | obj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 journey | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 journey | nmod:poss |
| 16 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 began | obl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 spot | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 spot | det |
| 19 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 journey | nmod |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 indicated | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 indicated | aux |
| 22 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 indicated | aux:pass |
| 23 | indicated | indicate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 spot | acl:relcl |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 indicated | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | preparations | the strength of Prince's dream San | for Prince's journey to the spot; immediately property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent preparation=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | indicate | past · perfect · passive | the spot | Prince | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 3 | dream | Prince | nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 4 | journey | Prince | to the spot | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent to=obl |
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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