Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 2, sentence 9
She saw an angel from Heaven bending over her.
Who acts: wife, angel · What happens: see, bend · To what, where: angel, Heaven
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 (wife, angel), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 angel | det |
| 4 | angel | angel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 saw | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 Heaven | case |
| 6 | Heaven | Heaven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 angel | nmod |
| 7 | bending | bend | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 angel | acl |
| 8 | over | over | ADP | _ | 9 her | case |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 bending | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | wife | a angel | Heaven | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer angel=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | bend | gerund | a angel not said here | over wife | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over she=Location |
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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