Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, sentence 60
Those in the Royal Chamber crowded about the prostrate Queen--at a respectful distance, however--who was not long in regaining her consciousness.
Who acts: Royal Chamber · What happens: crowd, not be, regain · To what, where: consciousness
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 (Royal Chamber), 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 | Those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 Chamber | det |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 Chamber | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Chamber | det |
| 4 | Royal | Royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Chamber | amod |
| 5 | Chamber | Chamber | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 crowded | nsubj |
| 6 | crowded | crowd | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | about | about | ADP | _ | 10 Queen | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Queen | det |
| 9 | prostrate | prostrate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Queen | amod |
| 10 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 crowded | obl |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 15 distance | punct |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 distance | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 distance | det |
| 14 | respectful | respectful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 distance | amod |
| 15 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 crowded | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 long | punct |
| 17 | however | however | ADV | _ | 22 long | advmod |
| 18 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 22 long | punct |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 long | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 long | cop |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 long | advmod |
| 22 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 crowded | parataxis |
| 23 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 24 regaining | mark |
| 24 | regaining | regain | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 long | advcl |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 consciousness | nmod:poss |
| 26 | consciousness | consciousness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 regaining | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 crowded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crowd | past | that Royal Chamber | about the prostrate Queen; at a respectful distance | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination-Conative»: agent=Agent at distance=Destination | ||||
| 2 | not is | past | who nsubj; however, long property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | regain | gerund | Chamber's consciousness | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent consciousness=Theme |
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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