Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9, sentence 113
Several persons were already occupying it but it was too dark to distinguish any of them clearly.
Who acts: Several persons, room · What happens: occupy, be, distinguish · To what, where: room, any
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 (Several persons, room), 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 | Several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 persons | amod |
| 2 | persons | person | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 occupying | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 occupying | aux |
| 4 | already | already | ADV | _ | 5 occupying | advmod |
| 5 | occupying | occupy | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 occupying | obj |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 dark | cc |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 dark | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 dark | cop |
| 10 | too | too | ADV | _ | 11 dark | advmod |
| 11 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 occupying | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 distinguish | mark |
| 13 | distinguish | distinguish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 dark | advcl |
| 14 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 distinguish | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 them | case |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 any | nmod |
| 17 | clearly | clearly | ADV | _ | 13 distinguish | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 occupying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | occupy | past · progressive | Several persons | room | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus it=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is | past | room | dark property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | distinguish | to-infinitive | room not said here | any of persons | clearly property | vn distinguish-23.5-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Attribute any=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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