Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8, sentence 27
The young woman threw herself on her husband’s breast and drenched him with her tears.
Who acts: young woman · What happens: throw, drench · To what, where: woman, breast, husband
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 (young woman), 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 | 3 woman | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 woman | amod |
| 3 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 threw | nsubj |
| 4 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 threw | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 breast | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 husband | nmod:poss |
| 8 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 breast | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 husband | case |
| 10 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 threw | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 drenched | cc |
| 12 | drenched | drench | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 threw | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 drenched | obj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 tears | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 tears | nmod:poss |
| 16 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 drenched | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | past | the young woman | woman | woman's husband's breast | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent herself=Theme on breast=Destination | |||
| 2 | drench | past | the young woman not said here | husband | with woman's tears | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Destination with tear=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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