Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 2, sentence 41
Each day he could be seen walking to the spot where his wife was sleeping.
Who acts: sun, wife · What happens: see, walk, sleep · To what, where: sun
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 (sun, wife), 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 | Each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 day | det |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 seen | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 seen | nsubj |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 seen | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 seen | aux:pass |
| 6 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | walking | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 seen | xcomp |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 spot | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 spot | det |
| 10 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 walking | obl |
| 11 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 15 sleeping | advmod |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 wife | nmod:poss |
| 13 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sleeping | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 sleeping | aux |
| 15 | sleeping | sleep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 spot | acl:relcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | could · passive | sun | day | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | walk | gerund | sun not said here | to the spot result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to spot=Result | ||||
| 3 | sleep | past · progressive | sun's wife | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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