Winning Buddha's smile, Opening, sentence 14
From time to time bits of Japanese literature pass before English-reading eyes.
What happens: read
This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Opening. 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 2 time | case |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 bits | case |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bits | compound |
| 5 | bits | bit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 time | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 pass | case |
| 7 | Japanese | Japanese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 pass | amod |
| 8 | literature | literature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pass | compound |
| 9 | pass | pass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bits | nmod |
| 10 | before | before | ADP | _ | 14 eyes | case |
| 11 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 reading | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 English | punct |
| 13 | reading | read | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 eyes | amod |
| 14 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 pass | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 time | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read | gerund | English compound | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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