Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8, sentence 161
Picking up a ring which she saw lying on the table, she examined it closely and demanded, sharply:
Who acts: Yei, ring · What happens: pick up, see, lie, examine, demand · To what, where: ring, table
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 (Yei, ring), 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 | Picking | pick | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 examined | advcl |
| 2 | up | up | ADP | _ | 1 Picking | compound:prt |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 ring | det |
| 4 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Picking | obj |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 saw | obj |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 saw | nsubj |
| 7 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ring | acl:relcl |
| 8 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 saw | xcomp |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 table | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 table | det |
| 11 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lying | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Picking | punct |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 examined | nsubj |
| 14 | examined | examine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 examined | obj |
| 16 | closely | closely | ADV | _ | 14 examined | advmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 demanded | cc |
| 18 | demanded | demand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 examined | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sharply | punct |
| 20 | sharply | sharply | ADV | _ | 18 demanded | advmod |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 examined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pick up | gerund | Yei not said here | a ring | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Topic | ||||
| 2 | see | past | Yei | a ring | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | lie | gerund | a ring not said here | the table | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on table=Location | ||||
| 4 | examine | past | Yei | ring | closely property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 5 | demand speech: request | past | Yei not said here | sharply property | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme |
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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