Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 2, sentence 138
She placed in the centre a vase filled with water, lighted the incense burner and two candles, one at each end, and began to pray to Heaven.
Who acts: girl, vase · What happens: place, fill, light, begin, pray · To what, where: vase, centre, incense burner, Heaven
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, vase), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 placed | nsubj |
| 2 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 centre | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 centre | det |
| 5 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 placed | obl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 vase | det |
| 7 | vase | vase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 placed | obj |
| 8 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 vase | acl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 water | case |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 filled | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 lighted | punct |
| 12 | lighted | light | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 vase | acl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 burner | det |
| 14 | incense | incense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 burner | compound |
| 15 | burner | burner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lighted | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 candles | cc |
| 17 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 candles | nummod |
| 18 | candles | candle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 burner | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 one | punct |
| 20 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 candles | appos |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 end | case |
| 22 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 end | det |
| 23 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 one | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 began | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 began | cc |
| 26 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 placed | conj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 pray | mark |
| 28 | pray | pray | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 began | xcomp |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 Heaven | case |
| 30 | Heaven | Heaven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 pray | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 placed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | place | past | girl | a vase | the centre | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent vase=Theme in centre=Destination | |||
| 2 | fill | participle | a vase not said here | with water | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with water=Instrument | ||||
| 3 | light | participle | a vase not said here | the incense burner and two candles | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent burner=Product | ||||
| 4 | begin | past | girl not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | pray | to-infinitive | girl not said here | Heaven | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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