Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 10, sentence 95
The servants led him to one of the ladies who could not conceal a grimace of disgust when she saw him.
Who acts: servants, ladies, feast, disgust · What happens: lead, not conceal, see, grimace · To what, where: banquet, one, grimace
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 (servants, ladies, feast, disgust), 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 servants | det |
| 2 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 led | nsubj |
| 3 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 led | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 one | case |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 led | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 ladies | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ladies | det |
| 9 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 one | nmod |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 conceal | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 conceal | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 conceal | advmod |
| 13 | conceal | conceal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 ladies | acl:relcl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 grimace | det |
| 15 | grimace | grimace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 conceal | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 disgust | case |
| 17 | disgust | disgust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 grimace | nmod |
| 18 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 saw | advmod |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 saw | nsubj |
| 20 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 conceal | advcl |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 saw | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past | the servants | banquet | one of the ladies | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to one=Destination | |||
| 2 | not conceal | could | the ladies | a grimace of disgust | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grimace=Patient | ||||
| 3 | see | past | feast | banquet | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | grimace | disgust | nom grimace «communication intransitive»: of=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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