Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 2, sentence 176
The young girl threw her arms about her father’s neck and cried in a joyful voice:
Who acts: young girl · What happens: throw, cry · To what, where: arms, joyful voice
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 (young 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 girl | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 girl | amod |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 threw | nsubj |
| 4 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 arms | nmod:poss |
| 6 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 threw | obj |
| 7 | about | about | ADP | _ | 11 neck | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 father | nmod:poss |
| 9 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 neck | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 father | case |
| 11 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 threw | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 cried | cc |
| 13 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 threw | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 voice | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 voice | det |
| 16 | joyful | joyful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 voice | amod |
| 17 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cried | obl |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | past | the young girl | girl's arms | about girl's father's neck | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent arm=Theme about neck=Destination | |||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | the young girl not said here | a joyful voice | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in voice=Location |
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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