Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 2, sentence 38
He took the little baby and turned it over to the care of a nurse whom he managed to secure.
Who acts: sight, nurse · What happens: take, turn over, manage, secure, care · To what, where: little baby, baby, care, nurse
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 (sight, nurse), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 baby | det |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 baby | amod |
| 5 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 turned | cc |
| 7 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 turned | obj |
| 9 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 turned | compound:prt |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 care | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 care | det |
| 12 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 turned | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 nurse | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 nurse | det |
| 15 | nurse | nurse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 care | nmod |
| 16 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 managed | obj |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 managed | nsubj |
| 18 | managed | manage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 nurse | acl:relcl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 secure | mark |
| 20 | secure | secure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 managed | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | sight | the little baby | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Theme | ||||
| 2 | turn over | past | sight not said here | baby | the care of a nurse | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to care=Recipient | |||
| 3 | manage | past | sight | a nurse | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | secure | to-infinitive | sight not said here | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | care | a nurse | nom care «act intransitive»: of=agent |
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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