Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1, sentence 151
As a matter of fact, the days passed for our two exiles just as quickly as if they had been living among their relatives and friends.
Who acts: days, Sun, fact · What happens: pass, live, matter · To what, where: relatives
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 (days, Sun, fact), 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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 3 matter | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 matter | det |
| 3 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 passed | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 fact | case |
| 5 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 matter | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 matter | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 days | det |
| 8 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 passed | nsubj |
| 9 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 exiles | case |
| 11 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 exiles | nmod:poss |
| 12 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 exiles | nummod |
| 13 | exiles | exile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 passed | obl |
| 14 | just | just | ADV | _ | 16 quickly | advmod |
| 15 | as | as | ADV | _ | 16 quickly | advmod |
| 16 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 9 passed | advmod |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 living | mark |
| 18 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 22 living | mark |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 living | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 living | aux |
| 21 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 living | aux |
| 22 | living | live | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 passed | advcl |
| 23 | among | among | ADP | _ | 25 relatives | case |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 relatives | nmod:poss |
| 25 | relatives | relative | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 living | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 friends | cc |
| 27 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 relatives | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | the days | as a matter of fact; for our two exiles; quickly property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | live | past · perfect · progressive | Sun | Sun's relatives and friends | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among relative=Location | ||||
| 3 | matter | fact | nom matter «cognition 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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