Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8, sentence 60
Clouds were hiding the face of the Sun, and the flowers, deprived of light, were wasting away; but the wind has swept away the clouds and the light comes to us again.
Who acts: Clouds, flowers, light · What happens: hide, deprive, waste away, sweep away, come · To what, where: face, flowers, wind, us
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 (Clouds, flowers, light), 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 | Clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 hiding | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hiding | aux |
| 3 | hiding | hide | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 face | det |
| 5 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hiding | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Sun | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Sun | det |
| 8 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 face | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 wasting | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 wasting | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 flowers | det |
| 12 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 wasting | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 deprived | punct |
| 14 | deprived | deprive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 flowers | acl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 light | case |
| 16 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 deprived | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 flowers | punct |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 wasting | aux |
| 19 | wasting | waste | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 hiding | conj |
| 20 | away | away | ADV | _ | 19 wasting | advmod |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 swept | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 swept | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 wind | det |
| 24 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 swept | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 swept | aux |
| 26 | swept | sweep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 hiding | parataxis |
| 27 | away | away | ADV | _ | 26 swept | advmod |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 clouds | det |
| 29 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 swept | obj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 comes | cc |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 light | det |
| 32 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 comes | nsubj |
| 33 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 swept | conj |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 us | case |
| 35 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 comes | obl |
| 36 | again | again | ADV | _ | 33 comes | advmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hiding | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | past · progressive | Clouds | the face of the Sun | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient | ||||
| 2 | deprive | participle | the flowers not said here | of light | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent of light=Theme | ||||
| 3 | waste away | past · progressive | the flowers | away property | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | sweep away | present · perfect · passive | the wind | the clouds obj; away property | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme cloud=Destination | ||||
| 5 | come | present | the light | us | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to we=Initial_Location |
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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