Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 2, sentence 40
All this happened so quickly that Sun-Yen thought it had happened in a dream, but the sad evidence was there before his eyes.
Who acts: this, Sun, it, sad evidence · What happens: happen, think, be · To what, where: dream · 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 (this, Sun, it, sad evidence), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 happened | det:predet |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 happened | nsubj |
| 3 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 quickly | advmod |
| 5 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 3 happened | advmod |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 thought | mark |
| 7 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 thought | nsubj |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Sun | punct |
| 9 | Yen | Yen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Sun | flat |
| 10 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 happened | advcl |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 happened | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 happened | aux |
| 13 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 thought | ccomp |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 dream | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 dream | det |
| 16 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 happened | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 there | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 there | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 evidence | det |
| 20 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 evidence | amod |
| 21 | evidence | evidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 there | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 there | cop |
| 23 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 happened | conj |
| 24 | before | before | ADP | _ | 26 eyes | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 26 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 there | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | this | quickly property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | Sun | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | happen | past · perfect | it | a dream | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in dream=Location | ||||
| 4 | is | past | the sad evidence | before sun's eyes | there property | tree rules |
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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