Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 2, sentence 130
On the way, I fell into the lake and gave myself up for lost when I was rescued by a disciple of an anchorite.
Who acts: I, disciple · What happens: fall, give up, lose, rescue · To what, where: way, myself, I
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 (I, disciple), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 way | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 way | det |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fell | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 way | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 fell | nsubj |
| 6 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 lake | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 lake | det |
| 9 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fell | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 gave | cc |
| 11 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 fell | conj |
| 12 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 gave | iobj |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 gave | compound:prt |
| 14 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 lost | mark |
| 15 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 gave | advcl |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 rescued | advmod |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 rescued | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 rescued | aux:pass |
| 19 | rescued | rescue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 lost | acl |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 disciple | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 disciple | det |
| 22 | disciple | disciple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rescued | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 anchorite | case |
| 24 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 anchorite | det |
| 25 | anchorite | anchorite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 disciple | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | I | the way | into the lake | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on way=Location | |||
| 2 | give up | past | I not said here | myself | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Source | ||||
| 3 | lose | participle | I not said here | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | rescue | past · passive | a disciple of a anchorite | I | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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