Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 3, sentence 154
Placing them at the water’s edge, she uttered a brief prayer and jumped into the water.
Who acts: woman · What happens: place, utter, jump · To what, where: sandals, edge, brief prayer, water
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 (woman), 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 | Placing | place | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 uttered | advcl |
| 2 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Placing | obj |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 edge | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 water | det |
| 5 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 edge | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 water | case |
| 7 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Placing | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Placing | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 uttered | nsubj |
| 10 | uttered | utter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 prayer | det |
| 12 | brief | brief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 prayer | amod |
| 13 | prayer | prayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 uttered | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 jumped | cc |
| 15 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 uttered | conj |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 water | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 water | det |
| 18 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 jumped | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 uttered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | place | gerund | woman not said here | sandals = sandal | the water's edge | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme at edge=Destination | |||
| 2 | utter speech: other | past | woman | a brief prayer | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent prayer=Topic | ||||
| 3 | jump | past | woman not said here | into the water result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into water=Result |
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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