Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 3, sentence 101
He paused before entering at the sound of voices and in the midst of the lamentations of Yeng-Si, he could make out these words:
Who acts: course · What happens: pause, enter, make out, lament · To what, where: sound, words, Yeng
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 (course), 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 paused | nsubj |
| 2 | paused | pause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 4 entering | mark |
| 4 | entering | enter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 paused | advcl |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 sound | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sound | det |
| 7 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 entering | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 voices | case |
| 9 | voices | voice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 sound | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 midst | cc |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 midst | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 midst | det |
| 13 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sound | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 lamentations | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 lamentations | det |
| 16 | lamentations | lamentation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 midst | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Yeng | case |
| 18 | Yeng | Yeng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 lamentations | nmod |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 Si | punct |
| 20 | Si | Si | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Yeng | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 make | punct |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 make | nsubj |
| 23 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 make | aux |
| 24 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 paused | advcl |
| 25 | out | out | ADP | _ | 24 make | compound:prt |
| 26 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 27 words | det |
| 27 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 make | obj |
| 28 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 paused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pause | past | course | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | enter | gerund | course not said here | the sound of voices and the midst of the lamentations of Yeng and Si | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | make out | could | course | this words | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | lament | Yeng and Si | nom lamentation «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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