Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, sentence 108
“The crescent of the moon seems to emerge from the waters.
Who acts: crescent · What happens: seem, emerge · To what, where: waters
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 (crescent), 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 | _ | 7 seems | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 crescent | det |
| 3 | crescent | crescent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 seems | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 moon | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 moon | det |
| 6 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 crescent | nmod |
| 7 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 emerge | mark |
| 9 | emerge | emerge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 seems | xcomp |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 waters | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 waters | det |
| 12 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 emerge | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 seems | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem in a quote | present | the crescent of the moon | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | emerge in a quote | to-infinitive | the crescent of the moon not said here | the waters | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from water=Initial_Location |
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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