Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 3, sentence 1
The young girl, having calmed somewhat her father’s fears, went to the merchant’s to learn the date of her departure.
Who acts: young girl, father, girl · What happens: have, calm, go, learn, fear, depart · To what, where: merchant, date
This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young girl, father, girl), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 girl | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 girl | amod |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 went | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 having | punct |
| 5 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 girl | acl |
| 6 | calmed | calm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 having | xcomp |
| 7 | somewhat | somewhat | ADP | _ | 11 fears | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 father | nmod:poss |
| 9 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fears | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 father | case |
| 11 | fears | fear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 calmed | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 girl | punct |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 merchant | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 merchant | det |
| 16 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 went | obl |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 merchant | case |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 learn | mark |
| 19 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 went | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 date | det |
| 21 | date | date | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 learn | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 departure | case |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 departure | nmod:poss |
| 24 | departure | departure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 date | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | the young girl not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | calm | participle | the young girl not said here | somewhat girl's father's fears | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | go | past | the young girl | the merchant | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to merchant=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | learn | to-infinitive | the young girl not said here | the date of girl's departure | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent date=Topic | ||||
| 5 | fear | girl's father | nom fear «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | depart | girl | nom departure «act intransitive»: poss=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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