Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1, sentence 174
Among the reeds that tremble in the wind, Deliberate leaps the frog, while swallows pass Bearing the insect-prisoners to their nests.”
Who acts: reeds, Deliberate, swallows · What happens: tremble, leap, pass, bear · To what, where: wind, frog, insect prisoners
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 (reeds, Deliberate, swallows), 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 | Among | among | ADP | _ | 3 reeds | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 reeds | det |
| 3 | reeds | reed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 leaps | obl |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 tremble | nsubj |
| 5 | tremble | tremble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 reeds | acl:relcl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 wind | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 wind | det |
| 8 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tremble | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 reeds | punct |
| 10 | Deliberate | Deliberate | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 leaps | nsubj |
| 11 | leaps | leap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 frog | det |
| 13 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 leaps | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 pass | punct |
| 15 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 17 pass | mark |
| 16 | swallows | swallow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 pass | nsubj |
| 17 | pass | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 leaps | conj |
| 18 | Bearing | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 pass | xcomp |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 prisoners | det |
| 20 | insect | insect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 prisoners | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 insect | punct |
| 22 | prisoners | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 Bearing | obj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 nests | case |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 nests | nmod:poss |
| 25 | nests | nest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 Bearing | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 leaps | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 leaps | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tremble | present | the reeds | the wind | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wind=Location | ||||
| 2 | leap | present | Deliberate | the frog | among the reeds | tree rules | |||
| 3 | pass | present | swallows | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | bear | gerund | swallows not said here | the insect prisoners | to swallows's nests | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prisoner=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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