Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, sentence 109
The fishes are frightened, believing they see a golden hook on a gigantic line which will lift them from their homes in the sea.
Who acts: fishes, gigantic line · What happens: frighten, believe, see, lift · To what, where: fishes, golden hook, gigantic line, homes
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 (fishes, gigantic line), 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 | 2 fishes | det |
| 2 | fishes | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 frightened | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 frightened | aux:pass |
| 4 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 see | punct |
| 6 | believing | believe | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 see | advcl |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 see | nsubj |
| 8 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 frightened | parataxis |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 hook | det |
| 10 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 hook | amod |
| 11 | hook | hook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 see | obj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 line | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 line | det |
| 14 | gigantic | gigantic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 line | amod |
| 15 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 see | obl |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 lift | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 lift | aux |
| 18 | lift | lift | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 line | acl:relcl |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 lift | obj |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 homes | case |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 homes | nmod:poss |
| 22 | homes | home | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 lift | obl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 sea | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 sea | det |
| 25 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lift | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 frightened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | frighten | present · passive | the fishes | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | believe | gerund | fishes = fish not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | see | present | fishes = fish | a golden hook | a gigantic line | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hook=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | lift | future | a gigantic line | fishes = fish | fishes's homes | in the sea | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme from home=Destination in sea=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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