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Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9, sentence 138

And yet the two women felt bitter and sad to think that soon they were about to die after having touched the threshold of that happiness which their reunion promised.

Who acts: two women, greetings, reunion · What happens: feel, think, die, touch, promise · To what, where: threshold, happiness · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (two women, greetings, reunion), 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

ccadvmoddetnummodnsubjxcompccconjmarkxcompmarkadvmodnsubj:outerauxadvmodmarkccompmarkauxadvcldetobjcasedetnmodobjnmod:possnsubjacl:relclpunctrootAndCCONJyetADVtheDETtwoNUMwomenNOUNfeltVERBbitterADJandCCONJsadADJtoPARTthinkVERBthatSCONJsoonADVtheyPRONwereAUXaboutADVtoPARTdieVERBafterSCONJhavingAUXtouchedVERBtheDETthresholdNOUNofADPthatDEThappinessNOUNwhichPRONtheirPRONreunionNOUNpromisedVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AndandCCONJ_6 feltcc
2yetyetADV_6 feltadvmod
3thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art5 womendet
4twotwoNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card5 womennummod
5womenwomanNOUNNumber=Plur6 feltnsubj
6feltfeelVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
7bitterbitterADJDegree=Pos6 feltxcomp
8andandCCONJ_9 sadcc
9sadsadADJDegree=Pos7 bitterconj
10totoPART_11 thinkmark
11thinkthinkVERBVerbForm=Inf9 sadxcomp
12thatthatSCONJ_18 diemark
13soonsoonADVDegree=Pos18 dieadvmod
14theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs18 diensubj:outer
15werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin18 dieaux
16aboutaboutADV_18 dieadvmod
17totoPART_18 diemark
18diedieVERBVerbForm=Inf11 thinkccomp
19afterafterSCONJ_21 touchedmark
20havinghaveAUXTense=Pres VerbForm=Part21 touchedaux
21touchedtouchVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part18 dieadvcl
22thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art23 thresholddet
23thresholdthresholdNOUNNumber=Sing21 touchedobj
24ofofADP_26 happinesscase
25thatthatDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem26 happinessdet
26happinesshappinessNOUNNumber=Sing23 thresholdnmod
27whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel30 promisedobj
28theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs29 reunionnmod:poss
29reunionreunionNOUNNumber=Sing30 promisednsubj
30promisedpromiseVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin26 happinessacl:relcl
31..PUNCT_6 feltpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1feelpastthe two womenyetbitter propertyvn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2think speech: otherto-infinitivethe two women not said herevn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3diepastgreetings = greetingabout, soon propertyvn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4touchgerund · perfectgreetings = greeting not said herethe threshold of that happinessvn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme threshold=Co-Theme
5promise speech: promisepastgreetings's reunionthat happinessvn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent which=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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