Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 7, sentence 54
When the meal was over they went for a walk in the garden, the King meanwhile relating all his troubles to Cheng-Si, who was greatly moved thereby, and said:
Who acts: meal, King · What happens: be, relate, move, say, trouble · To what, where: troubles, Cheng · 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 (meal, King), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 meal | det |
| 3 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 went | cop |
| 5 | over | over | SCONJ | _ | 7 went | mark |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 went | nsubj |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 said | advcl |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 walk | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 walk | det |
| 10 | walk | walk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 garden | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 garden | det |
| 13 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 walk | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 relating | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 King | det |
| 16 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 relating | nsubj |
| 17 | meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 18 relating | advmod |
| 18 | relating | relate | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 went | advcl |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 troubles | det:predet |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 troubles | nmod:poss |
| 21 | troubles | trouble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 relating | obj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 Cheng | case |
| 23 | Cheng | Cheng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 relating | obl |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 Si | punct |
| 25 | Si | Si | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Cheng | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 moved | punct |
| 27 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 moved | nsubj |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 moved | aux:pass |
| 29 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 30 moved | advmod |
| 30 | moved | move | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 Cheng | acl |
| 31 | thereby | thereby | ADV | _ | 30 moved | advmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 said | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 said | cc |
| 34 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 35 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 34 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the meal | for a walk in the garden; Ki nsubj; go property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | relate | gerund | the King | King's troubles | Cheng and Si | meanwhile property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent trouble=Topic to cheng=Recipient | ||
| 3 | move | past · passive | Cheng and Si | greatly, thereby property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: subject=Result | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | trouble | King | nom trouble «cognition transitive»: 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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