Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 3, sentence 40
The cries of the poor blind man attracted a number of the neighbors, who were also moved to tears at the pathetic sight.
Who acts: cries, poor blind man · What happens: attract, move, cry · To what, where: number, neighbors, tears
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 (cries, poor blind man), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 cries | det |
| 2 | cries | cry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 attracted | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 man | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 5 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 man | amod |
| 6 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 man | amod |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cries | nmod |
| 8 | attracted | attract | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 number | det |
| 10 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 attracted | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 neighbors | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 neighbors | det |
| 13 | neighbors | neighbor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 number | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 moved | punct |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 moved | nsubj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 moved | aux:pass |
| 17 | also | also | ADV | _ | 18 moved | advmod |
| 18 | moved | move | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 neighbors | acl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 tears | case |
| 20 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 moved | obl |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 sight | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 sight | det |
| 23 | pathetic | pathetic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 sight | amod |
| 24 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 tears | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 attracted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attract | past | the cries of the poor blind man | a number of the neighbors | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Patient | ||||
| 2 | move | past · passive | the neighbors | tears at the pathetic sight | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme to tear=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | cry | the poor blind man | nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
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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