Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9, sentence 125
That horse which has been neighing is the very one which I gave my husband, or at least it resembles it very much.”
Who acts: horse, one · What happens: neigh, be, give, resemble · To what, where: one, husband, horse
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 (horse, one), 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 horse | det |
| 2 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 one | nsubj |
| 3 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 neighing | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 neighing | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 neighing | aux |
| 6 | neighing | neigh | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 horse | acl:relcl |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 one | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 one | det |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 one | advmod |
| 10 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 gave | nsubj |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 gave | nsubj |
| 13 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 one | acl:relcl |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 husband | nmod:poss |
| 15 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gave | iobj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 resembles | punct |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 resembles | cc |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 least | case |
| 19 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 21 resembles | advmod |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 least | obj |
| 21 | resembles | resemble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 one | acl:relcl |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 resembles | obj |
| 23 | very | very | ADV | _ | 24 much | advmod |
| 24 | much | much | ADV | _ | 21 resembles | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 one | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | neigh | present · perfect · progressive | that horse | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | that horse | the one | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | give | past | the one | my husband | I nsubj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Theme | |||
| 4 | resemble | present | the one not said here | horse | tree rules |
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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