Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8, sentence 131
It so happened that one day the nun, returning from her sad pilgrimage, saw a young man, sound asleep, stretched across the narrow footpath.
Who acts: It, nun, one day · What happens: happen, return, see, stretch · To what, where: sad pilgrimage, young man, narrow footpath
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 (It, nun, one day), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 3 happened | advmod |
| 3 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 saw | mark |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 day | nummod |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 saw | nsubj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 nun | det |
| 8 | nun | nun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 day | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 returning | punct |
| 10 | returning | return | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 nun | acl |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 pilgrimage | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 pilgrimage | nmod:poss |
| 13 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 pilgrimage | amod |
| 14 | pilgrimage | pilgrimage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 returning | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 day | punct |
| 16 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 happened | advcl |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 man | det |
| 18 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 man | amod |
| 19 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 saw | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 sound | punct |
| 21 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 man | conj |
| 22 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 sound | xcomp |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 stretched | punct |
| 24 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 man | acl |
| 25 | across | across | ADP | _ | 28 footpath | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 footpath | det |
| 27 | narrow | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 footpath | amod |
| 28 | footpath | footpath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 stretched | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | It | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | return | gerund | the nun not said here | nun's sad pilgrimage | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from pilgrimage=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | see | past | one day | a young man and sound | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | stretch | participle | a young man and sound not said here | the narrow footpath | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across footpath=Location |
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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