Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9, sentence 146
The animal seemed to understand her message, for its eyes as they turned toward the young wife, seemed moist with tears.
Who acts: animal, message · What happens: seem, understand, turn · To what, where: message
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 (animal, message), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 animal | det |
| 2 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seemed | nsubj |
| 3 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 understand | mark |
| 5 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 seemed | xcomp |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 message | nmod:poss |
| 7 | message | message | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 understand | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 eyes | punct |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 eyes | case |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 11 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 message | conj |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 turned | mark |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 turned | nsubj |
| 14 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 understand | advcl |
| 15 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 18 wife | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 wife | det |
| 17 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 wife | amod |
| 18 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 turned | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 seemed | punct |
| 20 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 seemed | parataxis |
| 21 | moist | moist | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 seemed | xcomp |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 tears | case |
| 23 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 moist | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | the animal | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | understand | to-infinitive | the animal not said here | animal's message and horse's eyes | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer message=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | turn | past | message | toward the young wife | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme toward wife=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | seem | past | moist property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=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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