Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, sentence 119
While he was eating, the lady went to the Queen and repeated to her the strange speech of the blind visitor.
Who acts: Yen, lady · What happens: eat, go, repeat, speak · To what, where: strange speech, Queen, blind visitor · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Yen, lady), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 4 eating | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 eating | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 eating | aux |
| 4 | eating | eat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 went | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 eating | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 lady | det |
| 7 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | nsubj |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Queen | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Queen | det |
| 11 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 repeated | cc |
| 13 | repeated | repeat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 went | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 her | case |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 repeated | obl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 speech | det |
| 17 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 speech | amod |
| 18 | speech | speech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 repeated | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 visitor | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 visitor | det |
| 21 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 visitor | amod |
| 22 | visitor | visitor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 speech | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | past · progressive | Yen | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | go | past | the lady | to the Queen | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to queen=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | repeat | participle | the lady not said here | the strange speech of the blind visitor | Queen | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent speech=Topic to she=Recipient | |||
| 4 | speak | the blind visitor | nom speech «communication transitive»: of=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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