Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, sentence 137
“My daughter,” stammered Sun-Yen, and instantly his eyes opened and he saw before him the daughter that he had thought forever lost.
Who acts: daughter, eyes, Yen · What happens: stammer, open, see, think, lose · To what, where: Sun, daughter
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 (daughter, eyes, Yen), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 stammered | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 3 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stammered | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 daughter | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 daughter | punct |
| 6 | stammered | stammer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 stammered | obj |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 Yen | punct |
| 9 | Yen | Yen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Sun | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 opened | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 opened | cc |
| 12 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 15 opened | advmod |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 14 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 opened | nsubj |
| 15 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 stammered | parataxis |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 saw | cc |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 saw | nsubj |
| 18 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 opened | conj |
| 19 | before | before | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 saw | obl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 daughter | det |
| 22 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 saw | obj |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 thought | mark |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 thought | nsubj |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 thought | aux |
| 26 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 saw | advcl |
| 27 | forever | forever | ADV | _ | 28 lost | advmod |
| 28 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 thought | xcomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stammered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stammer speech: other | past | My daughter | Sun and Yen | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sun=Topic | ||||
| 2 | open | past | Yen's eyes | instantly property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | past | Yen | the daughter | before man | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer daughter=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | think speech: other | past · perfect | Yen | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | lose | participle | Yen not said here | forever property | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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