Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9, sentence 137
Their greetings naturally consumed some time--their hearts were glad and they were not ashamed to display their emotion.
Who acts: greetings, hearts, Yen · What happens: consume, be, not be, display, greet, emote · To what, where: emotion
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 (greetings, hearts, Yen), 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 greetings | nmod:poss |
| 2 | greetings | greeting | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 consumed | nsubj |
| 3 | naturally | naturally | ADV | _ | 4 consumed | advmod |
| 4 | consumed | consume | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 time | det |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 consumed | obj |
| 7 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 11 glad | punct |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 hearts | nmod:poss |
| 9 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 glad | nsubj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 glad | cop |
| 11 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 consumed | parataxis |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 ashamed | cc |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 ashamed | nsubj |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 ashamed | cop |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 ashamed | advmod |
| 16 | ashamed | ashamed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 glad | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 display | mark |
| 18 | display | display | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 ashamed | xcomp |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 emotion | nmod:poss |
| 20 | emotion | emotion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 display | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 consumed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consume | past | Yen's greetings | time | naturally property | vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | is | past | greetings's hearts | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not is | past | greetings = greeting | ashamed property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | display | to-infinitive | greetings = greeting not said here | greetings's emotion | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent emotion=Theme | ||||
| 5 | greet | Yen | nom greeting «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | emote | greetings = greeting | nom emotion «feeling 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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