Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8, sentence 126
She walked and walked, but to her great despair she met no one, nor could she find the slightest shelter wherein she might escape the dampness.
Who acts: fog · What happens: walk, meet, find, escape, despair · To what, where: one, slightest shelter, dampness
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 (fog), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 walked | nsubj |
| 2 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 walked | cc |
| 4 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 walked | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 met | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 met | cc |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 despair | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 despair | nmod:poss |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 despair | amod |
| 10 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 met | obl |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 met | nsubj |
| 12 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 walked | conj |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 one | det |
| 14 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 met | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 find | punct |
| 16 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 19 find | cc |
| 17 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 find | aux |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 find | nsubj |
| 19 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 walked | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 shelter | det |
| 21 | slightest | slight | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 22 shelter | amod |
| 22 | shelter | shelter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 find | obj |
| 23 | wherein | wherein | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 escape | advmod |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 escape | nsubj |
| 25 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 escape | aux |
| 26 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 find | advcl |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 dampness | det |
| 28 | dampness | dampness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 escape | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | fog | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | walk | past | fog not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | meet | past | fog | no one | to fog's great despair | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Co-Agent | |||
| 4 | find | could | fog | the slightest shelter | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shelter=Topic | ||||
| 5 | escape | might | fog | the dampness | wherein property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme dampness=Initial_Location | |||
| 6 | despair | fog | nom despair «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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