Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 8, sentence 94
They burst down the doors and swept through the palace like the demon waves of the Yellow Sea.
Who acts: messages · What happens: burst down, sweep, wave · To what, where: doors, palace, Yellow Sea
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 (messages), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 burst | nsubj |
| 2 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | down | down | ADP | _ | 2 burst | compound:prt |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 doors | det |
| 5 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 burst | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 swept | cc |
| 7 | swept | sweep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 burst | conj |
| 8 | through | through | ADP | _ | 10 palace | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 palace | det |
| 10 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 swept | obl |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 waves | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 waves | det |
| 13 | demon | demon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 waves | compound |
| 14 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 palace | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Sea | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Sea | det |
| 17 | Yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Sea | amod |
| 18 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 waves | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 burst | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burst down | past | messages = message | the doors | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sweep | past | messages = message not said here | the palace like the demon waves of the Yellow Sea | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through palace=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | wave | the Yellow Sea | nom wave «event 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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