Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 3, sentence 84
The murder was committed under the very eyes of the scholar’s wife.
What happens: commit · To what, where: murder, eyes
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: 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 murder | det |
| 2 | murder | murder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 committed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 committed | aux:pass |
| 4 | committed | commit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | under | under | ADP | _ | 8 eyes | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 eyes | det |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 eyes | advmod |
| 8 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 committed | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 wife | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 scholar | det |
| 11 | scholar | scholar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wife | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 scholar | case |
| 13 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 eyes | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 committed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | commit | past · passive | the murder | the eyes of the scholar's wife | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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