Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8, sentence 117
And yet a new calamity lay right in her path.
Who acts: new calamity · What happens: lay · To what, where: path
This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (new calamity), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 lay | cc |
| 2 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 6 lay | advmod |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 calamity | det |
| 4 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 calamity | amod |
| 5 | calamity | calamity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lay | nsubj |
| 6 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | right | right | ADV | _ | 10 path | advmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 path | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 path | nmod:poss |
| 10 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lay | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | present | a new calamity | calamity's path | yet | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent path=Result |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78208/10/117/