Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9, sentence 112
The room into which the young man was thrust after his arrest was very dark and small.
Who acts: room, man · What happens: be, arrest · To what, where: thrust
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 (room, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 room | det |
| 2 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 dark | nsubj |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 thrust | case |
| 4 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 thrust | nsubj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 6 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 man | amod |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 thrust | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 thrust | cop |
| 9 | thrust | thrust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 room | nmod |
| 10 | after | after | ADP | _ | 12 arrest | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 arrest | nmod:poss |
| 12 | arrest | arrest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 thrust | nmod |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 dark | cop |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 dark | advmod |
| 15 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 small | cc |
| 17 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 dark | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 dark | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the room | thrust | after man's arrest | the young man nsubj | tree rules | ||
| 2 | is | past | the room | dark property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | the room not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | arrest | man | nom arrest «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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