Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 3, sentence 153
When Yeng-Si had gone a short way, the old woman arose, and taking the sandals, she turned toward a lake which was a short distance away.
Who acts: Yeng, old woman, woman, lake · What happens: go, arise, take, turn, be · To what, where: short way, sandals, lake, short distance
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, old woman, woman, lake), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 6 gone | mark |
| 2 | Yeng | Yeng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 gone | nsubj |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Si | punct |
| 4 | Si | Si | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Yeng | flat |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 gone | aux |
| 6 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 way | det |
| 8 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 way | amod |
| 9 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gone | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 arose | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 woman | det |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 woman | amod |
| 13 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 arose | nsubj |
| 14 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 way | acl:relcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 taking | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 taking | cc |
| 17 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 gone | advcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 sandals | det |
| 19 | sandals | sandal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 taking | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 turned | punct |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 turned | nsubj |
| 22 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 taking | conj |
| 23 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 25 lake | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 lake | det |
| 25 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 turned | obl |
| 26 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 distance | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 distance | cop |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 distance | det |
| 29 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 distance | amod |
| 30 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 lake | acl:relcl |
| 31 | away | away | ADV | _ | 22 turned | advmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · perfect | Yeng | a short way | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme | ||||
| 2 | arise | past | the old woman | a short way not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme | ||||
| 3 | take | gerund | Yeng not said here | the sandals | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sandal=Theme | ||||
| 4 | turn | past | woman | a lake | away property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme toward lake=Trajectory | |||
| 5 | is a | past | a lake | a short distance | 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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