Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1, sentence 173
And stupid with the heat the serpent lies Stretched lazily along the languid boughs.
Who acts: serpent · What happens: lie, stretch · To what, where: heat, languid boughs
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 (serpent), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 2 stupid | cc |
| 2 | stupid | stupid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 heat | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 heat | det |
| 5 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stupid | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 serpent | det |
| 7 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lies | nsubj |
| 8 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 heat | acl:relcl |
| 9 | Stretched | stretch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 lies | xcomp |
| 10 | lazily | lazily | ADV | _ | 9 Stretched | advmod |
| 11 | along | along | ADP | _ | 14 boughs | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 boughs | det |
| 13 | languid | languid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 boughs | amod |
| 14 | boughs | bough | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 Stretched | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stupid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | present | the serpent | the heat not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stretch | participle | the serpent not said here | the languid boughs | lazily property | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along bough=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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