Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, sentence 134
These words moved Cheng-Si profoundly for in this sordid old man she recognized her father.
Who acts: words, girl · What happens: move, recognize · To what, where: Cheng, father
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 (words, girl), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 words | det |
| 2 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 moved | nsubj |
| 3 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Cheng | Cheng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 moved | obj |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Si | punct |
| 6 | Si | Si | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Cheng | flat |
| 7 | profoundly | profoundly | ADV | _ | 3 moved | advmod |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 man | case |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 man | case |
| 10 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 man | nsubj |
| 11 | sordid | sordid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 man | amod |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 man | amod |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 moved | obl |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 recognized | nsubj |
| 15 | recognized | recognize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 man | acl:relcl |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 father | nmod:poss |
| 17 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 recognized | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 moved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | past | this words | Cheng | for sordid old man this; profoundly property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme cheng=Result | |||
| 2 | recognize | past | girl | girl's father | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer father=Stimulus |
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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