Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 7, sentence 168
The young King and Queen immediately clambered aboard the boat and San-Syeng made a rapid trip over the arm of the sea which separated the island of Cho-To from the city of Chang-Yang.
Who acts: young King, San, arm · What happens: clamber, make, separate · To what, where: rapid trip, arm, island
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 (young King, San, arm), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 King | amod |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 clambered | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Queen | cc |
| 5 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 King | conj |
| 6 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 7 clambered | advmod |
| 7 | clambered | clamber | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | aboard | aboard | ADP | _ | 10 boat | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 boat | det |
| 10 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 clambered | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 made | cc |
| 12 | San | San | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 made | nsubj |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 San | punct |
| 14 | Syeng | Syeng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 San | flat |
| 15 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 clambered | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 trip | det |
| 17 | rapid | rapid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 trip | amod |
| 18 | trip | trip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 made | obj |
| 19 | over | over | ADP | _ | 21 arm | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 arm | det |
| 21 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 trip | nmod |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 sea | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 sea | det |
| 24 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 arm | nmod |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 separated | nsubj |
| 26 | separated | separate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 arm | acl:relcl |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 island | det |
| 28 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 separated | obj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 Cho | case |
| 30 | Cho | Cho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 island | nmod |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 To | punct |
| 32 | To | To | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 trip | nmod |
| 33 | from | from | ADP | _ | 35 city | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 city | det |
| 35 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 made | obl |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 Chang | case |
| 37 | Chang | Chang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 city | nmod |
| 38 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 39 Yang | punct |
| 39 | Yang | Yang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 Chang | conj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 clambered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | clamber | past | the young King and Queen | aboard the boat; immediately property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make | past | San | a rapid trip To | the arm of the sea | from the city of Chang and Yang | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: agent=Agent trip=Product from city=Material | ||
| 3 | separate | past | the arm of the sea | the island of Cho | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent island=Patient |
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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