Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, sentence 143
Sun-Yen was completely transformed with delight as he heard his daughter speaking.
Who acts: Yen, daughter · What happens: transform, hear, speak · To what, where: Yen, daughter · 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, daughter), 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 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 transformed | punct |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sun | punct |
| 3 | Yen | Yen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 transformed | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 transformed | aux:pass |
| 5 | completely | completely | ADV | _ | 6 transformed | advmod |
| 6 | transformed | transform | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 delight | case |
| 8 | delight | delight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 transformed | obl |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 heard | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 heard | nsubj |
| 11 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 transformed | advcl |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 13 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 heard | obj |
| 14 | speaking | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 daughter | acl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 transformed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | transform | past · passive | Yen | with delight; completely property | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | Yen | Yen's daughter | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer daughter=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | gerund | Yen's daughter not said here | vn talk-37.5 «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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