Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 11, sentence 17
Hundreds of tables were decorated and filled with food.
What happens: decorate, fill · To what, where: Hundreds
This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 decorated | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 tables | case |
| 3 | tables | table | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Hundreds | nmod |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 decorated | aux:pass |
| 5 | decorated | decorate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 filled | cc |
| 7 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 decorated | conj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 food | case |
| 9 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 filled | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 decorated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decorate | past · passive | Hundreds of tables | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination | |||||
| 2 | fill | participle | with food | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with food=Instrument |
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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