Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 3, sentence 37
Sun-Yen threw his arms about his daughter’s neck while his frame was shaken with sobs.
Who acts: Sun · What happens: throw, shake · To what, where: arms, frame
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 (Sun), 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 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 threw | nsubj |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Yen | punct |
| 3 | Yen | Yen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Sun | conj |
| 4 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 arms | nmod:poss |
| 6 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 threw | obj |
| 7 | about | about | ADP | _ | 11 neck | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 9 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 neck | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 daughter | case |
| 11 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 threw | obl |
| 12 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 16 shaken | mark |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 frame | nmod:poss |
| 14 | frame | frame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 shaken | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 shaken | aux:pass |
| 16 | shaken | shake | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 threw | advcl |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 sobs | case |
| 18 | sobs | sob | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 shaken | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | past | Sun and Yen | Yen's arms | about Yen's daughter's neck | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent arm=Theme about neck=Destination | |||
| 2 | shake | past · passive | Yen's frame | with sobs | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient with sob=Co-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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