Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8, sentence 136
Finally, unable to be patient any longer, and after satisfying herself that no one was watching her, she decided to wake the strange traveler.
Who acts: nun, one · What happens: be, satisfy, watch, decide, wake · To what, where: nun, strange traveler
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, one), 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 | Finally | finally | ADV | _ | 6 patient | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Finally | punct |
| 3 | unable | unable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 patient | amod |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 patient | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 patient | cop |
| 6 | patient | patient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | any | any | ADV | _ | 8 longer | advmod |
| 8 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 patient | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 decided | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 decided | cc |
| 11 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 12 satisfying | mark |
| 12 | satisfying | satisfy | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 decided | advcl |
| 13 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 satisfying | obj |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 watching | mark |
| 15 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 16 one | det |
| 16 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 watching | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 watching | aux |
| 18 | watching | watch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 satisfying | advcl |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 watching | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 satisfying | punct |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 decided | nsubj |
| 22 | decided | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 patient | conj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 wake | mark |
| 24 | wake | wake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 decided | xcomp |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 traveler | det |
| 26 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 traveler | amod |
| 27 | traveler | traveler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 wake | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 patient | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | to-infinitive | finally, long, patient property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | satisfy | gerund | nun not said here | nun | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus herself=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | watch | past · progressive | no one | nun | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 4 | decide | past | nun | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | wake not said to happen | to-infinitive | nun not said here | the strange traveler | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent traveler=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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