Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, sentence 105
“I planted a beautiful fruit tree and it bore a single flower of exquisite beauty and charm.
Who acts: gentleman, tree · What happens: plant, bear · To what, where: beautiful fruit tree, single flower
This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gentleman, tree), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 planted | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 planted | nsubj |
| 3 | planted | plant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 tree | det |
| 5 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 tree | amod |
| 6 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tree | compound |
| 7 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 planted | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 bore | cc |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 bore | nsubj |
| 10 | bore | bear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 planted | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 flower | det |
| 12 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 flower | amod |
| 13 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bore | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 beauty | case |
| 15 | exquisite | exquisite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 beauty | amod |
| 16 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 flower | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 charm | cc |
| 18 | charm | charm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 beauty | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 planted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | plant in a quote | past | gentleman | a beautiful fruit tree | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient | ||||
| 2 | bear in a quote | past | tree | a single flower of exquisite beauty and charm | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Patient |
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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