Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9, sentence 45
Yeng-Si paused by the water’s edge, and raising her eyes to Heaven, cried in a weak and trembling voice:
Who acts: Yeng · What happens: pause, raise, cry, tremble · To what, where: eyes, Heaven, weak voice
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 | 4 paused | nsubj |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Si | punct |
| 3 | Si | Si | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Yeng | flat |
| 4 | paused | pause | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 edge | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 water | det |
| 7 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 edge | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 water | case |
| 9 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 paused | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 cried | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 cried | cc |
| 12 | raising | raise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 cried | advcl |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 14 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 raising | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 Heaven | case |
| 16 | Heaven | Heaven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 raising | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 raising | punct |
| 18 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 paused | parataxis |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 voice | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 voice | det |
| 21 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 voice | amod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 trembling | cc |
| 23 | trembling | tremble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 weak | conj |
| 24 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 cried | obl |
| 25 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 paused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pause | participle | Yeng | by the water's edge | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by edge=Location | ||||
| 2 | raise | gerund | Yeng's eyes | Heaven | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent eye=Theme to heaven=Destination | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | a weak voice | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in voice=Location | |||||
| 4 | tremble | gerund | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: 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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