Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 7, sentence 180
Anyone who sought to leave was to be arrested on the spot.
What happens: seek, leave, arrest · To what, where: Anyone, spot
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: 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 | Anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 9 arrested | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 sought | nsubj |
| 3 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Anyone | acl:relcl |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 leave | mark |
| 5 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sought | xcomp |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 arrested | aux:pass |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 arrested | mark |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 arrested | aux:pass |
| 9 | arrested | arrest | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 spot | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 spot | det |
| 12 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 arrested | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 arrested | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seek | past | who nsubj | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | leave not said to happen | to-infinitive | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | arrest | past · passive | Anyone | the spot | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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