Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9, sentence 158
The little party halted while she told the melancholy tale of the devotion of the old lady who had sacrificed herself without hope of recompense or reward.
Who acts: Yeng, old lady, devotion, recompense · What happens: halt, tell, sacrifice, devote, hope · To what, where: little party, melancholy tale, Yeng, old lady · 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 (Yeng, old lady, devotion, recompense), 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 | 3 party | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 party | amod |
| 3 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | halted | halt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 party | acl |
| 5 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 7 told | mark |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 told | nsubj |
| 7 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 halted | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 tale | det |
| 9 | melancholy | melancholy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tale | compound |
| 10 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 told | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 devotion | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 devotion | det |
| 13 | devotion | devotion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tale | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 lady | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 lady | det |
| 16 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 lady | amod |
| 17 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 devotion | nmod |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 sacrificed | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 sacrificed | aux |
| 20 | sacrificed | sacrifice | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 lady | acl:relcl |
| 21 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 20 sacrificed | obj |
| 22 | without | without | ADP | _ | 23 hope | case |
| 23 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sacrificed | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 recompense | case |
| 25 | recompense | recompense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hope | nmod |
| 26 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 27 reward | cc |
| 27 | reward | reward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hope | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 party | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | halt | participle | the little party not said here | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | Yeng | the melancholy tale of the devotion of the old lady | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | sacrifice | past · perfect | the old lady | Yeng | without hope of recompense or reward | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent herself=Theme | |||
| 5 | tell | the devotion of the old lady | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 6 | devote | the old lady | nom devotion «feeling transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 7 | hope | recompense | nom hope «feeling intransitive»: of=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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