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Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8, sentence 24

San-Syeng turned his attention at once to the prostrate form of his friend who lay as rigid as a log and seemed to be unable to utter the least sound.

Who acts: San, friend · What happens: turn, be, seem, utter, attend, form · To what, where: attention, prostrate form, least sound, friend

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 (San, friend), 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

nsubjpunctflatnmod:possobjcaseoblcasedetamodoblcasenmod:possnmodnsubjcopadvmodacl:relclcasedetoblccconjmarkcopxcompmarkxcompdetamodobjpunctrootSanPROPN-PUNCTSyengPROPNturnedVERBhisPRONattentionNOUNatADPonceADVtoADPtheDETprostrateADJformNOUNofADPhisPRONfriendNOUNwhoPRONlayVERBasADVrigidADJasADPaDETlogNOUNandCCONJseemedVERBtoPARTbeAUXunableADJtoPARTutterVERBtheDETleastADJsoundNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SanSanPROPNNumber=Sing4 turnednsubj
2--PUNCT_1 Sanpunct
3SyengSyengPROPNNumber=Sing1 Sanflat
4turnedturnVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
5hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs6 attentionnmod:poss
6attentionattentionNOUNNumber=Sing4 turnedobj
7atatADP_8 oncecase
8onceonceADVNumForm=Word NumType=Mult4 turnedobl
9totoADP_12 formcase
10thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art12 formdet
11prostrateprostrateADJDegree=Pos12 formamod
12formformNOUNNumber=Sing4 turnedobl
13ofofADP_15 friendcase
14hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs15 friendnmod:poss
15friendfriendNOUNNumber=Sing12 formnmod
16whowhoPRONPronType=Rel19 rigidnsubj
17laylayVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin19 rigidcop
18asasADV_19 rigidadvmod
19rigidrigidADJDegree=Pos15 friendacl:relcl
20asasADP_22 logcase
21aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art22 logdet
22loglogNOUNNumber=Sing19 rigidobl
23andandCCONJ_24 seemedcc
24seemedseemVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 turnedconj
25totoPART_27 unablemark
26bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf27 unablecop
27unableunableADJDegree=Pos24 seemedxcomp
28totoPART_29 uttermark
29utterutterVERBVerbForm=Inf27 unablexcomp
30thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art32 sounddet
31leastleastADJDegree=Sup32 soundamod
32soundsoundNOUNNumber=Sing29 utterobj
33..PUNCT_4 turnedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1turnpastSanSan's attentionthe prostrate form of San's friendvn roll-51.3.1 «NP.agent V NP.theme PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Agent attention=Theme at once=Source to form=Trajectory
2ispresentSan's friendas a log; rigid propertytree rules
3seempastSan not said herevn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
4isto-infinitiveSan not said hereunable propertytree rules
5utter speech: otherto-infinitiveSan not said herethe least soundvn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sound=Topic
6attendSannom attention «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent
7formSan's friendnom form «communication transitive»: of=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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