Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, sentence 93
They watched over them and came to their assistance when--on account of their blindness--they were awkward and clumsy.
Who acts: ladies · What happens: watch, come, be, assist, account · To what, where: account, blindness
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 (ladies), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 watched | nsubj |
| 2 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | over | over | ADP | _ | 4 them | case |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 watched | obl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 came | cc |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 watched | conj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 assistance | case |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 assistance | nmod:poss |
| 9 | assistance | assistance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 came | advmod |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 account | punct |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 account | case |
| 13 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 blindness | case |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 blindness | nmod:poss |
| 16 | blindness | blindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 account | nmod |
| 17 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 20 awkward | punct |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 awkward | nsubj |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 awkward | cop |
| 20 | awkward | awkward | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 watched | parataxis |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 clumsy | cc |
| 22 | clumsy | clumsy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 awkward | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 watched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | past | ladies = lady | over corners = corner | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over they=Location | ||||
| 2 | come | past | ladies = lady not said here | account of ladies's blindness | to ladies's assistance | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to assistance=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | is | past | ladies = lady | awkward property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | ladies = lady not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | assist | ladies = lady | nom assistance «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | account | ladies's blindness | nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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