Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9, sentence 157
When they were passing by the lake which recalled so many bitter memories, Yeng-Si bade her son to pause.
Who acts: Ou, lake, Yeng · What happens: pass, recall, bade, pause · To what, where: many bitter memories, son
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 (Ou, lake, 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 passing | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 passing | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 passing | aux |
| 4 | passing | pass | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 bade | advcl |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 lake | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 lake | det |
| 7 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 passing | obl |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 recalled | nsubj |
| 9 | recalled | recall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 lake | acl:relcl |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 many | advmod |
| 11 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 memories | amod |
| 12 | bitter | bitter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 memories | amod |
| 13 | memories | memory | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 recalled | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 passing | punct |
| 15 | Yeng | Yeng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 bade | nsubj |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 Si | punct |
| 17 | Si | Si | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Yeng | flat |
| 18 | bade | bade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 son | nmod:poss |
| 20 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bade | obj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 pause | mark |
| 22 | pause | pause | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 bade | advcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 bade | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past · progressive | Ou | by the lake | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by lake=Location | ||||
| 2 | recall | past | the lake | many bitter memories | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent memory=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bade | past | Yeng | Yeng's son | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | pause | to-infinitive | Yeng not said here | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=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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