Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 2, sentence 31
Death had already touched her brow and called her to her ancestors.
What happens: touch, call · To what, where: Death, wife, ancestors · 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: 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 | Death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 touched | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 touched | aux |
| 3 | already | already | ADV | _ | 4 touched | advmod |
| 4 | touched | touch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 brow | nmod:poss |
| 6 | brow | brow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 touched | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 called | cc |
| 8 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 touched | conj |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 called | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 ancestors | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 ancestors | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ancestors | ancestor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 called | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 touched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | touch | past · perfect · passive | Death | wife's brow obj | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer brow=Result | ||||
| 2 | call | past | wife | wife's ancestors | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Topic to ancestor=Recipient |
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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