Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, sentence 121
She told her impressions to her husband and then expressed a desire to have all the blind men in the Palace pass before her--one by one.
Who acts: crescent · What happens: tell, express, have, impress · To what, where: impressions, desire, blind men, Palace pass · 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 (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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 told | nsubj |
| 2 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 impressions | nmod:poss |
| 4 | impressions | impression | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 told | iobj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 husband | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 husband | nmod:poss |
| 7 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 told | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 expressed | cc |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 expressed | advmod |
| 10 | expressed | express | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 told | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 desire | det |
| 12 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 expressed | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 have | mark |
| 14 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 desire | acl |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 men | det:predet |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 men | det |
| 17 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 men | amod |
| 18 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 have | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 pass | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 pass | det |
| 21 | Palace | Palace | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 pass | compound |
| 22 | pass | pass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 men | nmod |
| 23 | before | before | ADP | _ | 24 her | case |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 have | obj |
| 25 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 26 one | punct |
| 26 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 expressed | obl |
| 27 | by | by | ADP | _ | 28 one | case |
| 28 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 one | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | crescent | crescent's impressions | to crescent's husband | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent impression=Topic to husband=Recipient | |||
| 2 | express | past | crescent not said here | a desire | then | one by one obl | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent desire=Theme | ||
| 3 | have | to-infinitive | crescent not said here | all blind men | the Palace pass | crescent obj | tree rules | ||
| 4 | impress | crescent | nom impression «cognition transitive»: poss=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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