Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, sentence 7
Under the supervision of the orderly, a magnificent pagoda was rapidly built by the water’s edge.
Who acts: edge · What happens: build · To what, where: magnificent pagoda, supervision
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 (edge), 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 | Under | under | ADP | _ | 3 supervision | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 supervision | det |
| 3 | supervision | supervision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 built | obl |
| 4 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 6 orderly | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 orderly | det |
| 6 | orderly | orderly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 supervision | acl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 supervision | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 pagoda | det |
| 9 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 pagoda | amod |
| 10 | pagoda | pagoda | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 built | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 built | aux:pass |
| 12 | rapidly | rapidly | ADV | _ | 13 built | advmod |
| 13 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 edge | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 water | det |
| 16 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 edge | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 water | case |
| 18 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 built | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 built | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | past · passive | the water's edge | a magnificent pagoda | the supervision | rapidly property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset subject=Product |
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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