Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, sentence 61
Thereupon San-Syeng asked her tenderly, as he bowed before her, what had been the cause of her sudden swoon.
Who acts: San, General · What happens: ask, bow, be, swoon · To what, where: cause
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, General), 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 | Thereupon | thereupon | ADV | _ | 5 asked | advmod |
| 2 | San | San | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 San | punct |
| 4 | Syeng | Syeng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 San | flat |
| 5 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 tenderly | nmod:poss |
| 7 | tenderly | tenderly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 asked | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bowed | punct |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 bowed | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 bowed | nsubj |
| 11 | bowed | bow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 asked | conj |
| 12 | before | before | ADP | _ | 13 her | case |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 bowed | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 cause | punct |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 19 cause | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 cause | aux |
| 17 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 cause | cop |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 cause | det |
| 19 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bowed | parataxis |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 swoon | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 swoon | nmod:poss |
| 22 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 swoon | amod |
| 23 | swoon | swoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 cause | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | San | thereupon property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | bow | past | General | before San | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before she=Location | ||||
| 3 | is a | past · perfect | the cause | of San's sudden swoon; what nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | swoon | San | nom swoon «event intransitive»: poss=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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