Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, sentence 123
Immediately, the long file began to form, Sun-Yen being the last of the line.
Who acts: long file, Sun · What happens: begin, form, be
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 (long file, Sun), 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 | Immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 6 began | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Immediately | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 file | det |
| 4 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 file | amod |
| 5 | file | file | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 began | nsubj |
| 6 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 form | mark |
| 8 | form | form | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 began | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 last | punct |
| 10 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 last | nsubj |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 Yen | punct |
| 12 | Yen | Yen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Sun | conj |
| 13 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 last | cop |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 last | det |
| 15 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 began | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 line | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 line | det |
| 18 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 last | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | the long file | immediately property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | form | to-infinitive | the long file not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | gerund | Sun and Yen | of the line; last property | tree rules |
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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