Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8, sentence 127
Tired, almost unto death, she threw herself down beside a clump of tall bamboo, intending to rest but a few moments, but in spite of her well-meaning resolutions, she was soon fast asleep.
Who acts: Tired death, fog · What happens: throw down, intend, rest, mean, be, spite · To what, where: fog, clump, resolutions
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 (Tired death, 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 | Tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 death | amod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Tired | punct |
| 3 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 5 death | advmod |
| 4 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 5 death | case |
| 5 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 threw | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 death | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 threw | nsubj |
| 8 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 threw | obj |
| 10 | down | down | ADP | _ | 8 threw | compound:prt |
| 11 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 13 clump | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 clump | det |
| 13 | clump | clump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 threw | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 bamboo | case |
| 15 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 bamboo | amod |
| 16 | bamboo | bamboo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 clump | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 intending | punct |
| 18 | intending | intend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 threw | advcl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 rest | mark |
| 20 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 intending | xcomp |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 moments | cc |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 moments | det |
| 23 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 moments | amod |
| 24 | moments | moment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 rest | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 meaning | punct |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 33 meaning | cc |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 spite | case |
| 28 | spite | spite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 meaning | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 her | case |
| 30 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 spite | nmod |
| 31 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 33 meaning | advmod |
| 32 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 well | punct |
| 33 | meaning | mean | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 threw | advcl |
| 34 | resolutions | resolution | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 meaning | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 asleep | punct |
| 36 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 asleep | nsubj |
| 37 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 asleep | cop |
| 38 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 40 asleep | advmod |
| 39 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 40 asleep | advmod |
| 40 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 threw | advcl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw down | past | Tired death | fog | a clump of tall bamboo | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent herself=Theme beside clump=Destination | |||
| 2 | intend | gerund | Tired death not said here | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | rest not said to happen | to-infinitive | Tired death not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | mean | gerund | Tired death not said here | resolutions | in spite of fog; well property | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot resolution=Theme in spite=Attribute | |||
| 5 | is | past | fog | asleep, fast, soon property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | spite | fog | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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