Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8, sentence 129
The unfortunate woman who was obliged to abandon her child and to become a nun would often visit the spot which brought back such painful memories; indeed, she seemed to take a keen pleasure in seeing the spot where she had become a mother.
Who acts: nun, spot · What happens: oblige, abandon, become, visit, bring back, seem · To what, where: unfortunate woman, child, spot, such painful memories, keen pleasure, mother
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 (nun, spot), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 woman | det |
| 2 | unfortunate | unfortunate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 woman | amod |
| 3 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 obliged | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 obliged | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 obliged | aux:pass |
| 6 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 abandon | mark |
| 8 | abandon | abandon | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 obliged | xcomp |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 child | nmod:poss |
| 10 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 abandon | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 become | cc |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 become | mark |
| 13 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 abandon | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 nun | det |
| 15 | nun | nun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 visit | nsubj |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 visit | aux |
| 17 | often | often | ADV | _ | 18 visit | advmod |
| 18 | visit | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 become | ccomp |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 spot | det |
| 20 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 visit | obj |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 brought | nsubj |
| 22 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 spot | acl:relcl |
| 23 | back | back | ADV | _ | 22 brought | advmod |
| 24 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 memories | amod |
| 25 | painful | painful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 memories | amod |
| 26 | memories | memory | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 brought | obj |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 seemed | punct |
| 28 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 31 seemed | advmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 seemed | punct |
| 30 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 seemed | nsubj |
| 31 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 obliged | conj |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 take | mark |
| 33 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 seemed | xcomp |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 pleasure | det |
| 35 | keen | keen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 pleasure | amod |
| 36 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 take | obj |
| 37 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 38 seeing | mark |
| 38 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 33 take | advcl |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 spot | det |
| 40 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 seeing | obj |
| 41 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 44 become | advmod |
| 42 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 become | nsubj |
| 43 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 become | aux |
| 44 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 40 spot | acl:relcl |
| 45 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 mother | det |
| 46 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 become | xcomp |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 obliged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | oblige | past · passive | the unfortunate woman | who nsubj | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result | ||||
| 2 | abandon | to-infinitive | woman's child | vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme child=Source | |||||
| 3 | become | to-infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | visit | would | a nun | the spot | often property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spot=Co-Agent | |||
| 5 | bring back | past | the spot | such painful memories | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent memory=Theme | ||||
| 6 | seem | past | nun | indeed property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 7 | take | to-infinitive | nun not said here | a keen pleasure | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pleasure=Theme | ||||
| 8 | see | gerund | nun not said here | the spot | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer spot=Stimulus | ||||
| 9 | become | past · perfect | nun | a mother | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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