Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 9, sentence 75
Yeng-Si and her daughter-in-law, torn with anguish, were wailing and sobbing.
What happens: tear, wail, sob · To what, where: law
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: 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 | 10 law | nsubj |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Si | punct |
| 3 | Si | Si | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Yeng | flat |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 daughter | cc |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 6 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Yeng | conj |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 law | punct |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 law | case |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 in | punct |
| 10 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 torn | punct |
| 12 | torn | tear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 law | acl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 anguish | case |
| 14 | anguish | anguish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 torn | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 wailing | punct |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 wailing | aux |
| 17 | wailing | wail | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 law | appos |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 sobbing | cc |
| 19 | sobbing | sob | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 wailing | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 law | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tear | participle | law Yeng and Yeng's daughter not said here | with anguish | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with anguish=Instrument | ||||
| 2 | wail | past · progressive | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | sob | gerund | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: 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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