Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8, sentence 159
The latter related the tale of her sad life and this pitiful story so touched the young woman that she wept with her new friend in sympathy.
Who acts: latter, pitiful story, Yei, sad life · What happens: relate, touch, weep, tell · To what, where: tale, young woman · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (latter, pitiful story, Yei, sad life), 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 | 2 latter | det |
| 2 | latter | latter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 related | nsubj |
| 3 | related | relate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 tale | det |
| 5 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 related | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 life | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 life | nmod:poss |
| 8 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 life | amod |
| 9 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tale | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 touched | cc |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 story | det |
| 12 | pitiful | pitiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 story | amod |
| 13 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 touched | nsubj |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 touched | advmod |
| 15 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 related | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 woman | det |
| 17 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 woman | amod |
| 18 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 touched | obj |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 wept | mark |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 wept | nsubj |
| 21 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 touched | conj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 friend | case |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 friend | nmod:poss |
| 24 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 friend | amod |
| 25 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 wept | obl |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 sympathy | case |
| 27 | sympathy | sympathy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 friend | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 related | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | relate | past | the latter | the tale of Yei's sad life | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=Theme | ||||
| 2 | touch | past | this pitiful story | the young woman | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme woman=Co-Theme | ||||
| 3 | weep | past | Yei | with Yei's new friend in sympathy | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | tell | Yei's sad life | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=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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