Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 7, sentence 169
When they were safely ashore, Ki-Si inquired of San-Syeng if he would kindly direct him to a place where he and his wife could pass the night.
Who acts: thanks, Ki, San · What happens: be, inquire, direct, pass · To what, where: Si
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 (thanks, Ki, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 ashore | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 ashore | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ashore | cop |
| 4 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 5 ashore | advmod |
| 5 | ashore | ashore | ADV | _ | 10 inquired | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 ashore | punct |
| 7 | Ki | Ki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 inquired | nsubj |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 Si | punct |
| 9 | Si | Si | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Ki | conj |
| 10 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 San | case |
| 12 | San | San | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 inquired | obl |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 Syeng | punct |
| 14 | Syeng | Syeng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 San | flat |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 direct | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 direct | nsubj |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 direct | aux |
| 18 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 19 direct | advmod |
| 19 | direct | direct | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 inquired | advcl |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 direct | obj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 place | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 place | det |
| 23 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 direct | obl |
| 24 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 30 pass | advmod |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 pass | nsubj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 wife | cc |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 wife | nmod:poss |
| 28 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 he | conj |
| 29 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 pass | aux |
| 30 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 place | acl:relcl |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 night | det |
| 32 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 pass | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 inquired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | thanks | ashore, safely property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | inquire speech: other | past | Ki and Si | of San | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of san=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | direct a condition, not said to happen | would | San | Si | to a place; kindly property | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 4 | pass | could | San | night | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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