Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1, sentence 152
Very soon signs of Spring were to be seen.
What happens: see, sign · To what, where: signs, Spring
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: 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 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 seen | advmod |
| 3 | signs | sign | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Spring | case |
| 5 | Spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 signs | nmod |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 seen | aux |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 seen | mark |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 seen | aux:pass |
| 9 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past · passive | signs of Spring | soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | sign | Spring | nom sign «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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