Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1, sentence 136
“What did I tell you the other day,” she said to her husband, but she soon gained control of herself and regarded the misfortune which had fallen on both of them in a calm light.
Who acts: woman, misfortune · What happens: tell, say, gain, regard, fall · To what, where: husband, control, misfortune, both · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, misfortune), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 tell | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 tell | obj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 tell | aux |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 tell | nsubj |
| 5 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 tell | iobj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 day | det |
| 8 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 day | amod |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tell | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 tell | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 tell | punct |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 husband | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 husband | nmod:poss |
| 16 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 gained | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 gained | cc |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 gained | nsubj |
| 20 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 gained | advmod |
| 21 | gained | gain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | parataxis |
| 22 | control | control | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 gained | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 herself | case |
| 24 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 22 control | nmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 regarded | cc |
| 26 | regarded | regard | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 gained | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 misfortune | det |
| 28 | misfortune | misfortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 regarded | obj |
| 29 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 fallen | nsubj |
| 30 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 fallen | aux |
| 31 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 28 misfortune | acl:relcl |
| 32 | on | on | ADP | _ | 33 both | case |
| 33 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 fallen | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 them | case |
| 35 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 both | nmod |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 light | case |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 light | det |
| 38 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 light | amod |
| 39 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 fallen | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert in a quote | past · do-support | woman | woman's husband = husband | day | What obj | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient what=Topic | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | woman | woman's husband | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to husband=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | gain | past | woman | control of woman | soon property | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent control=Theme | |||
| 4 | regard | past | woman not said here | the misfortune | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent misfortune=Theme | ||||
| 5 | fall | past · perfect | the misfortune | both of Sun | in a calm light | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on both=Location |
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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