Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 3, sentence 125
The two women, weeping and sobbing, threw themselves at the feet of their rescuer in gratitude.
Who acts: two women · What happens: weep, sob, throw · To what, where: things, feet
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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 women | det |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 women | nummod |
| 3 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 threw | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 weeping | punct |
| 5 | weeping | weep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 women | acl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 sobbing | cc |
| 7 | sobbing | sob | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 weeping | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 women | punct |
| 9 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 threw | obj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 feet | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 feet | det |
| 13 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 threw | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 rescuer | case |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 rescuer | nmod:poss |
| 16 | rescuer | rescuer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 feet | nmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 gratitude | case |
| 18 | gratitude | gratitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rescuer | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weep | gerund | the two women not said here | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | sob | gerund | the two women not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | throw | past | the two women | things = thing | the feet of feet's rescuer in gratitude | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme at foot=Destination |
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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