Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 2, sentence 112
The disciple passed over to him a paper on which the poor blind man placed his signature.
Who acts: disciple, poor blind man, man · What happens: pass over, place, sign · To what, where: paper, sun, signature
This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (disciple, poor blind man, man), 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 disciple | det |
| 2 | disciple | disciple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 passed | nsubj |
| 3 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | over | over | ADP | _ | 3 passed | compound:prt |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 passed | obl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 paper | det |
| 8 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 passed | obj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 which | case |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 placed | obl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 man | det |
| 12 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 man | amod |
| 13 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 man | amod |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 placed | nsubj |
| 15 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 paper | acl:relcl |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 signature | nmod:poss |
| 17 | signature | signature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 placed | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass over | past | the disciple | a paper | sun | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent paper=Theme to he=Recipient | |||
| 2 | place | past | the poor blind man | man's signature | a paper | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent signature=Theme on which=Destination | |||
| 3 | sign | man | nom signature «communication transitive»: 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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