Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 2, sentence 137
Not succeeding in going to sleep, she went out to take a bath in the lake, after which she began to prepare the sacrifice table in the garden.
Who acts: girl · What happens: not succeed, go, sleep, go out, take, begin · To what, where: bath, lake, sacrifice table, garden
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 (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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 succeeding | advmod |
| 2 | succeeding | succeed | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 went | advcl |
| 3 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 4 going | mark |
| 4 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 succeeding | advcl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 sleep | mark |
| 6 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 going | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 succeeding | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 went | nsubj |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | out | out | ADV | _ | 9 went | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 take | mark |
| 12 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 went | advcl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 bath | det |
| 14 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 take | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 lake | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 lake | det |
| 17 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 take | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 began | punct |
| 19 | after | after | ADP | _ | 20 which | case |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 began | obl |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 began | nsubj |
| 22 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 went | conj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 prepare | mark |
| 24 | prepare | prepare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 began | xcomp |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 table | det |
| 26 | sacrifice | sacrifice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 table | compound |
| 27 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 prepare | obj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 garden | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 garden | det |
| 30 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 prepare | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not succeed | gerund | girl not said here | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | go | gerund | girl not said here | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | sleep | to-infinitive | girl not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | go out | past | girl | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | take | to-infinitive | girl not said here | a bath | the lake | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent bath=Value in lake=Location | |||
| 6 | begin | past | girl | which obl | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 7 | prepare | to-infinitive | girl not said here | the sacrifice table | the garden | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent table=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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