Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 7, sentence 197
Ki-Si, whom Ja-Jo-Mi believed to be dead, was keeping under cover at the little town of Chang-Yang.
Who acts: Ki · What happens: believe, be, keep · To what, where: cover · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (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 | Ki | Ki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 believed | nsubj |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Si | punct |
| 3 | Si | Si | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Ki | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 believed | punct |
| 5 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 believed | obj |
| 6 | Ja | Ja | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 believed | nsubj |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Jo | punct |
| 8 | Jo | Jo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Ja | flat |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 Mi | punct |
| 10 | Mi | Mi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Ja | conj |
| 11 | believed | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 dead | mark |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 dead | cop |
| 14 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 believed | xcomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 keeping | punct |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 keeping | aux |
| 17 | keeping | keep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 believed | ccomp |
| 18 | under | under | ADP | _ | 19 cover | case |
| 19 | cover | cover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 keeping | obl |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 town | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 town | det |
| 22 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 town | amod |
| 23 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 keeping | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Chang | case |
| 25 | Chang | Chang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 town | nmod |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 Yang | punct |
| 27 | Yang | Yang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Chang | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 believed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | past | Ki and Si | whom obj; Ja and Mi nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | Ki and Si not said here | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | keep | past · progressive | cover | at the little town of Chang and Yang | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent under cover=Location |
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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