Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, sentence 94
The banquet was nearing an end when Sun-Yen arrived--tired and travel-stained.
Who acts: banquet, Sun · What happens: near, arrive, stain · To what, where: end
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 (banquet, Sun), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 banquet | det |
| 2 | banquet | banquet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 nearing | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 nearing | aux |
| 4 | nearing | near | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 end | det |
| 6 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 nearing | obj |
| 7 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 11 arrived | mark |
| 8 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 arrived | nsubj |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 Yen | punct |
| 10 | Yen | Yen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Sun | conj |
| 11 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 nearing | advcl |
| 12 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 tired | punct |
| 13 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 arrived | xcomp |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 stained | cc |
| 15 | travel | travel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stained | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 travel | punct |
| 17 | stained | stain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 tired | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 nearing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | near | past · progressive | the banquet | a end | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | arrive | past | Sun and Yen | tired property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stain | participle | Sun and Yen not said here | travel compound | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=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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