Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 7, sentence 196
The people, however, were grumbling and commenting, but the fear of the tyrant kept them from expressing too openly their complaints.
Who acts: people, fear · What happens: grumble, comment, keep, express, fear, complain · To what, where: people, complaints, tyrant
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 (people, fear), 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 | 2 people | det |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 grumbling | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 people | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 7 grumbling | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 however | punct |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 grumbling | aux |
| 7 | grumbling | grumble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 commenting | cc |
| 9 | commenting | comment | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 grumbling | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 kept | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 kept | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 fear | det |
| 13 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 kept | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 tyrant | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 tyrant | det |
| 16 | tyrant | tyrant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fear | nmod |
| 17 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 grumbling | parataxis |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 kept | obj |
| 19 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 20 expressing | mark |
| 20 | expressing | express | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 kept | advcl |
| 21 | too | too | ADV | _ | 22 openly | advmod |
| 22 | openly | openly | ADV | _ | 20 expressing | advmod |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 complaints | nmod:poss |
| 24 | complaints | complaint | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 expressing | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 grumbling | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grumble speech: other | past · progressive | the people | however property | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | comment speech: other | gerund | the people not said here | vn lecture-37.11-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | keep | past | the fear of the tyrant | people | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 4 | express | gerund | the fear of the tyrant not said here | people's complaints | openly property | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent complaint=Theme | |||
| 5 | fear | the tyrant | nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | complain | people | nom complaint «state intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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