Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 1, sentence 89
When the agent walked by he picked up the letter and naturally glanced around but there was no one in sight.
Who acts: agent, one · What happens: walk, pick up, glance around, be · To what, where: letter
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 (agent, one), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 walked | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 agent | det |
| 3 | agent | agent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 walked | nsubj |
| 4 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 7 picked | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 picked | nsubj |
| 7 | picked | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 walked | advcl |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 picked | compound:prt |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 letter | det |
| 10 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 picked | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 glanced | cc |
| 12 | naturally | naturally | ADV | _ | 13 glanced | advmod |
| 13 | glanced | glance | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 picked | conj |
| 14 | around | around | ADV | _ | 13 glanced | advmod |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 was | cc |
| 16 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 17 was | expl |
| 17 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 glanced | conj |
| 18 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 19 one | det |
| 19 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 was | nsubj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 sight | case |
| 21 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 one | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | the agent | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | pick up | past | agent | the letter | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Topic | ||||
| 3 | glance around | participle | agent not said here | around, naturally property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | be | past | no one in sight | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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