Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 11, sentence 42
From the tremendous crowd arose cries of gladness which were a token of thanks, a hymn of joy and a fervent prayer for the future of the land.
Who acts: gladness, joy · What happens: arise, be, cry, hymn · To what, where: cries, tremendous crowd, token
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: who acts (gladness, joy), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 4 crowd | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 crowd | det |
| 3 | tremendous | tremendous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 crowd | amod |
| 4 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 arose | obl |
| 5 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | cries | cry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 arose | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 gladness | case |
| 8 | gladness | gladness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cries | nmod |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 token | nsubj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 token | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 token | det |
| 12 | token | token | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gladness | appos |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 thanks | case |
| 14 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 token | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 hymn | punct |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 hymn | det |
| 17 | hymn | hymn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 thanks | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 joy | case |
| 19 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hymn | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 prayer | cc |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 prayer | det |
| 22 | fervent | fervent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 prayer | amod |
| 23 | prayer | prayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 token | conj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 future | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 future | det |
| 26 | future | future | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 prayer | nmod |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 land | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 land | det |
| 29 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 future | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 arose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arise | past | cries of gladness | the tremendous crowd | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cry=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | gladness | a token and a fervent prayer for the future of the land | of thanks and a hymn of joy; a fervent prayer for the future of the land conj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | cry | gladness | nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 4 | hymn | joy | nom hymn «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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