Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 2, sentence 142
She dreamed that an old man was saying to her, “Very shortly something is going to happen to you.
Who acts: Fatigue, old man, something · What happens: dream, say, go, happen · To what, where: Fatigue · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Fatigue, old man, something), 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 dreamed | nsubj |
| 2 | dreamed | dream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 saying | mark |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 man | amod |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 saying | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 saying | aux |
| 8 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 dreamed | advcl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 her | case |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 saying | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 going | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 going | punct |
| 13 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 14 shortly | advmod |
| 14 | shortly | shortly | ADV | _ | 17 going | advmod |
| 15 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 17 going | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 going | aux |
| 17 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 saying | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 happen | mark |
| 19 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 going | xcomp |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 you | case |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 happen | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 dreamed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dream | past | Fatigue | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past · progressive | a old man | Fatigue | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | go in a quote | present · progressive | something | shortly property | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | happen in a quote | to-infinitive | something not said here | Fatigue | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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