Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9, sentence 109
He entered a merchant’s shop near by, threw his robe over a random object and dashed out of the doorway.
Who acts: man · What happens: enter, throw, dash · To what, where: shop, robe, random object, doorway
This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 entered | nsubj |
| 2 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 merchant | det |
| 4 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shop | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 merchant | case |
| 6 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 entered | obj |
| 7 | near | near | ADP | _ | 2 entered | obl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 near | fixed |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 threw | punct |
| 10 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 entered | parataxis |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 robe | nmod:poss |
| 12 | robe | robe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 threw | obj |
| 13 | over | over | ADP | _ | 16 object | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 object | det |
| 15 | random | random | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 object | amod |
| 16 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 threw | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 dashed | cc |
| 18 | dashed | dash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 threw | conj |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 doorway | case |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 doorway | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 doorway | det |
| 22 | doorway | doorway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 dashed | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | man | a merchant's shop | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme shop=Destination | ||||
| 2 | throw | past | man's robe | a random object | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent robe=Theme over object=Destination | ||||
| 3 | dash | past | the doorway | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out doorway=Trajectory |
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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