Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1, sentence 172
The day is beautiful; amid the shrubs Are fragrant blossoms, clustered in sweet sleep, The butterflies that seek them eagerly Seem poised to count each rain-bow tinted leaf.
Who acts: day, shrubs, butterflies, rain bow · What happens: be, cluster, seek, poise, count, tint · To what, where: fragrant blossoms, sweet sleep, butterflies, rain bow, leaf
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 (day, shrubs, butterflies, rain bow), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 day | det |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 beautiful | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 beautiful | cop |
| 4 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 6 amid | punct |
| 6 | amid | amid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 beautiful | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 shrubs | det |
| 8 | shrubs | shrub | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 blossoms | nsubj |
| 9 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 blossoms | cop |
| 10 | fragrant | fragrant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 blossoms | amod |
| 11 | blossoms | blossom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 amid | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 clustered | punct |
| 13 | clustered | cluster | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 blossoms | acl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 sleep | case |
| 15 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 sleep | amod |
| 16 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 clustered | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 butterflies | punct |
| 18 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 butterflies | det |
| 19 | butterflies | butterfly | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 poised | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 seek | nsubj |
| 21 | seek | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 butterflies | acl:relcl |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 seek | obj |
| 23 | eagerly | eagerly | ADV | _ | 21 seek | advmod |
| 24 | Seem | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 poised | aux |
| 25 | poised | poise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 blossoms | parataxis |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 count | mark |
| 27 | count | count | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 poised | advcl |
| 28 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 bow | det |
| 29 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 bow | compound |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 rain | punct |
| 31 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 count | obj |
| 32 | tinted | tint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 bow | acl |
| 33 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 tinted | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 beautiful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the day | amid conj; beautiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | the shrubs | fragrant blossoms | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | cluster | participle | fragrant blossoms not said here | sweet sleep | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | seek | present | the butterflies | butterflies = butterfly | eagerly property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 5 | poise | present · passive | the butterflies | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | count | to-infinitive | each rain bow | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bow=Theme | |||||
| 7 | tint | participle | each rain bow not said here | leaf | vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78208/3/172/