Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, sentence 3
San-Syeng showered warm and profuse thanks upon the sister for all the attentions and kindnesses she had shown to Yeng-Si.
Who acts: San · What happens: shower, show · To what, where: warm thanks, attentions, Yeng
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 (San), 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 | San | San | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 showered | nsubj |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 San | punct |
| 3 | Syeng | Syeng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 San | flat |
| 4 | showered | shower | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 thanks | amod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 profuse | cc |
| 7 | profuse | profuse | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 warm | conj |
| 8 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 4 showered | obj |
| 9 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 11 sister | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sister | det |
| 11 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 showered | obl |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 attentions | case |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 attentions | det:predet |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 attentions | det |
| 15 | attentions | attention | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 showered | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 kindnesses | cc |
| 17 | kindnesses | kindness | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 attentions | conj |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 shown | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 shown | aux |
| 20 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 attentions | acl:relcl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 Yeng | case |
| 22 | Yeng | Yeng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 shown | obl |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 Si | punct |
| 24 | Si | Si | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Yeng | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 showered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shower | past | San | warm thanks | upon the sister; for all attentions and kindnesses | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent thanks=Theme upon sister=Destination | |||
| 2 | show | past · perfect | San | all attentions and kindnesses not said here | Yeng and Si | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent attention=Topic to yeng=Recipient |
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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