Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 7, sentence 170
San-Syeng suggested that they put up at the same inn where he was staying--an invitation which they heartily accepted.
Who acts: San, Ki · What happens: suggest, put up, stay, accept · To what, where: same inn, invitation
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, Ki), 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 | 4 suggested | nsubj |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 San | punct |
| 3 | Syeng | Syeng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 San | flat |
| 4 | suggested | suggest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 put | mark |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 put | nsubj |
| 7 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 suggested | advcl |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 put | compound:prt |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 inn | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 inn | det |
| 11 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 inn | amod |
| 12 | inn | inn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 put | obl |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 staying | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 staying | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 staying | aux |
| 16 | staying | stay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 inn | acl |
| 17 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 19 invitation | punct |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 invitation | det |
| 19 | invitation | invitation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 staying | obl |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 accepted | obj |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 accepted | nsubj |
| 22 | heartily | heartily | ADV | _ | 23 accepted | advmod |
| 23 | accepted | accept | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 invitation | acl:relcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 suggested | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suggest speech: suggest | past | San | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | put up | past | Ki | the same inn | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent at inn=Destination | ||||
| 3 | stay | past · progressive | San | a invitation | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | accept | past | Ki | a invitation | heartily property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=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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