Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 2, sentence 18
Scarcely three days had passed after the birth of little Cheng-Si when her mother died.
Who acts: mother · What happens: pass, die · To what, where: Scarcely three days
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 (mother), 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 | Scarcely | scarcely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 days | amod |
| 2 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 days | nummod |
| 3 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 passed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 passed | aux |
| 5 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | after | after | ADP | _ | 8 birth | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 birth | det |
| 8 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 passed | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Cheng | case |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Cheng | amod |
| 11 | Cheng | Cheng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 birth | nmod |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 Si | punct |
| 13 | Si | Si | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Cheng | conj |
| 14 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 17 died | mark |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 mother | nmod:poss |
| 16 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 died | nsubj |
| 17 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 passed | advcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past · perfect · passive | Scarcely three days | after the birth of little Cheng and Si | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | die | past | Si's mother | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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