Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 3, sentence 177
This nun ran to the spot whence the cries came and was somewhat surprised to find there the mother and child.
Who acts: nun, cries · What happens: run, come, be, find · To what, where: mother
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 (nun, cries), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 nun | det |
| 2 | nun | nun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 spot | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 spot | det |
| 6 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ran | obl |
| 7 | whence | whence | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 came | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cries | det |
| 9 | cries | cry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 came | nsubj |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ran | parataxis |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 surprised | cc |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 surprised | cop |
| 13 | somewhat | somewhat | ADV | _ | 14 surprised | advmod |
| 14 | surprised | surprised | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 came | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 find | mark |
| 16 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 surprised | advcl |
| 17 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 find | advmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 mother | det |
| 19 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 find | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 child | cc |
| 21 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 mother | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | this nun | to the spot result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to spot=Result | ||||
| 2 | come | past | the cries | whence property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the cries not said here | somewhat, surprised property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | find | to-infinitive | the cries not said here | the mother and child | there | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Topic |
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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