Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 3, sentence 145
She thanked her friend for her excellent advice and handed her sandals to her without understanding in the least what motive she had in this request.
Who acts: direction · What happens: thank, hand, understand, have · To what, where: friend, sandals, least motive, request
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 (direction), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 thanked | nsubj |
| 2 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 friend | nmod:poss |
| 4 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 thanked | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 advice | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 advice | nmod:poss |
| 7 | excellent | excellent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 advice | amod |
| 8 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 thanked | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 handed | cc |
| 10 | handed | hand | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 thanked | conj |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 sandals | nmod:poss |
| 12 | sandals | sandal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 handed | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 her | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 handed | obj |
| 15 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 16 understanding | mark |
| 16 | understanding | understand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 handed | advcl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 motive | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 motive | det |
| 19 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 21 motive | amod |
| 20 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 21 motive | det |
| 21 | motive | motive | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 understanding | obl |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 had | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 motive | acl:relcl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 request | case |
| 25 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 request | det |
| 26 | request | request | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 had | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thanked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank | past | direction | direction's friend | for direction's excellent advice | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent friend=Theme for advice=Attribute | |||
| 2 | hand | past | direction not said here | direction's sandals | direction obj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | understand | gerund | direction not said here | the least motive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | have | past | direction | the least motive not said here | this request | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent motive=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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