Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 2, sentence 136
After they had shared their meagre meal the young girl went to her room where she began to reflect upon her father’s story.
Who acts: children, young girl, girl · What happens: share, go, begin, reflect · To what, where: meagre meal, room
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 (children, young girl, girl), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 4 shared | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 shared | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 shared | aux |
| 4 | shared | share | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 went | advcl |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 meal | nmod:poss |
| 6 | meagre | meagre | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 meal | amod |
| 7 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shared | obj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 girl | det |
| 9 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 girl | amod |
| 10 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 went | nsubj |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 room | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 room | nmod:poss |
| 14 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 went | obl |
| 15 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 began | advmod |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 began | nsubj |
| 17 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 room | acl:relcl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 reflect | mark |
| 19 | reflect | reflect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 began | xcomp |
| 20 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 24 story | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 father | nmod:poss |
| 22 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 story | nmod:poss |
| 23 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 22 father | case |
| 24 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 reflect | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | share | past · perfect | children = child | children's meagre meal | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | past | the young girl | girl's room | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to room=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | girl | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | reflect | to-infinitive | girl not said here | upon girl's father's story | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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