Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9, sentence 145
Yeng-So-Yei, catching sight of the horse she had given her husband, ran to the stately looking steed and imprinted a kiss on the end of its nose.
Who acts: Yeng · What happens: catch, give, run, look, imprint, sight · To what, where: sight, husband, kiss, end, 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 (Yeng), 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 | Yeng | Yeng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 ran | nsubj |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeng | punct |
| 3 | So | so | ADV | _ | 18 ran | advmod |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Yei | punct |
| 5 | Yei | Yei | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 ran | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 catching | punct |
| 7 | catching | catch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 Yei | conj |
| 8 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 catching | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 horse | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 horse | det |
| 11 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sight | nmod |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 given | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 given | aux |
| 14 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 horse | acl:relcl |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 husband | nmod:poss |
| 16 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 given | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Yei | punct |
| 18 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 steed | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 steed | det |
| 21 | stately | stately | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 looking | compound |
| 22 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 steed | amod |
| 23 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 ran | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 imprinted | cc |
| 25 | imprinted | imprint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 ran | conj |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 kiss | det |
| 27 | kiss | kiss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 imprinted | obj |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 end | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 end | det |
| 30 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 imprinted | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 nose | case |
| 32 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 nose | nmod:poss |
| 33 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 end | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | gerund | Yeng not said here | sight of the horse | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give | past · perfect | Yeng | Yeng's husband | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Theme | ||||
| 3 | run | past | Yeng | to the looking steed result; Yei nsubj | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to steed=Result | ||||
| 4 | look | gerund | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 5 | imprint | past | Yeng not said here | a kiss | on the end of end's nose | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent kiss=Theme on end=Destination | |||
| 6 | sight | the horse | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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