Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 3, sentence 18
Cheng-Si had tenderly placed her arms about her father to support him while she was making this fatal confession.
Who acts: Cheng · What happens: place, support, make · To what, where: Cheng, father, fatal confession
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 (Cheng), 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 | Cheng | Cheng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 placed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Si | punct |
| 3 | Si | Si | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Cheng | flat |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 placed | aux |
| 5 | tenderly | tenderly | ADV | _ | 6 placed | advmod |
| 6 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 arms | nmod:poss |
| 8 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 placed | obj |
| 9 | about | about | ADP | _ | 11 father | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 father | nmod:poss |
| 11 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 placed | obl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 support | mark |
| 13 | support | support | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 placed | advcl |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 support | obj |
| 15 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 18 making | mark |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 making | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 making | aux |
| 18 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 support | advcl |
| 19 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 confession | det |
| 20 | fatal | fatal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 confession | amod |
| 21 | confession | confession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 making | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 placed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | place | past · perfect · passive | Cheng | about Cheng's father; Cheng's arms obj; tenderly property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme arm=Destination | ||||
| 2 | support | to-infinitive | father | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | make | past · progressive | Cheng | this fatal confession | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent confession=Product |
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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