Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 7, sentence 177
Meantime, the house on the island where the young Prince had lived since he had left the Capital had become food for the fire and flame.
Who acts: young Prince, Prince, Capital · What happens: live, leave, become · To what, where: food, Meantime
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 Prince, Prince, Capital), 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 | Meantime | meantime | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 house | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 house | det |
| 4 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Meantime | appos |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 island | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 island | det |
| 7 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 house | nmod |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 lived | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Prince | det |
| 10 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Prince | amod |
| 11 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 lived | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 lived | aux |
| 13 | lived | live | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 island | acl:relcl |
| 14 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 17 left | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 left | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 left | aux |
| 17 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 lived | advcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Capital | det |
| 19 | Capital | Capital | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 become | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 become | aux |
| 21 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 left | advcl |
| 22 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 become | xcomp |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 fire | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 fire | det |
| 25 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 food | nmod |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 flame | cc |
| 27 | flame | flame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 fire | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Meantime | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past · perfect | the young Prince | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | leave | past · perfect | Prince | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | become | past · perfect | the Capital | food for the fire and flame | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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