Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 3, sentence 113
It was just at this moment that Su-Yeng entered the room where the two women were and said in a troubled voice:
Who acts: companion, Su, two women · What happens: be, enter · To what, where: room, troubled voice
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 (companion, Su, two women), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 moment | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 moment | cop |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 6 moment | advmod |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 moment | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 moment | det |
| 6 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 entered | mark |
| 8 | Su | Su | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 entered | nsubj |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Su | punct |
| 10 | Yeng | Yeng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Su | flat |
| 11 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 moment | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 room | det |
| 13 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 entered | obj |
| 14 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 20 said | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 women | det |
| 16 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 women | nummod |
| 17 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 said | nsubj |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 said | cop |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 said | cc |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 room | acl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 voice | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 voice | det |
| 23 | troubled | troubled | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 voice | amod |
| 24 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 said | obl |
| 25 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 moment | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | companion | at this moment | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | enter | past | Su | the room | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme room=Destination | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the two women | a troubled voice | say property | tree rules |
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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