Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 3, sentence 112
Touched by her story, Yeng-Si forgot for the time her own misfortunes to sympathize with her companion.
Who acts: Yeng · What happens: touch, forget, sympathize · To what, where: own misfortunes
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 (Yeng), 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 | Touched | touch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 forgot | advcl |
| 2 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 story | case |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 story | nmod:poss |
| 4 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Touched | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Touched | punct |
| 6 | Yeng | Yeng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 forgot | nsubj |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Si | punct |
| 8 | Si | Si | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Yeng | flat |
| 9 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 time | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 time | det |
| 12 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 forgot | obl |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 misfortunes | nmod:poss |
| 14 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 misfortunes | amod |
| 15 | misfortunes | misfortune | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 forgot | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 sympathize | mark |
| 17 | sympathize | sympathize | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 forgot | advcl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 companion | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 companion | nmod:poss |
| 20 | companion | companion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sympathize | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 forgot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | touch | participle | Yeng not said here | by monster's story | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | forget | past | Yeng | monster's own misfortunes | time | tree rules | |||
| 3 | sympathize | to-infinitive | Yeng not said here | with monster's companion | vn empathize-88.2 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer with companion=Stimulus |
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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