Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1, sentence 17
While on his way thither, his attention was suddenly drawn to a great crowd of people by the roadside.
Who acts: roadside, Yen · What happens: draw, attend · To what, where: attention, great crowd
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 (roadside, Yen), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 4 way | mark |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 way | case |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 way | nmod:poss |
| 4 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 drawn | advcl |
| 5 | thither | thither | ADV | _ | 4 way | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 way | punct |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 attention | nmod:poss |
| 8 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 drawn | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 drawn | aux:pass |
| 10 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 11 drawn | advmod |
| 11 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 crowd | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 crowd | det |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 crowd | amod |
| 15 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 drawn | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 people | case |
| 17 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 crowd | nmod |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 roadside | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 roadside | det |
| 20 | roadside | roadside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 drawn | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 drawn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past · passive | the roadside | Yen's attention | a great crowd of people | Yen's way advcl; suddenly property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme to crowd=Destination | ||
| 2 | attend | Yen | nom attention «cognition intransitive»: poss=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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