Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4, sentence 109
His attention was drawn to a great mansion surrounded by a vast garden, so he turned in this direction to view it more closely.
Who acts: San · What happens: draw, surround, turn, view, attend · To what, where: attention, great mansion, direction
This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (San), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 attention | nmod:poss |
| 2 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drawn | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 drawn | aux:pass |
| 4 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 mansion | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 mansion | det |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 mansion | amod |
| 8 | mansion | mansion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drawn | obl |
| 9 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 mansion | acl |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 garden | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 garden | det |
| 12 | vast | vast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 garden | amod |
| 13 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 surrounded | obl:agent |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 turned | punct |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 turned | advmod |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 turned | nsubj |
| 17 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 drawn | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 direction | case |
| 19 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 direction | det |
| 20 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 turned | obl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 view | mark |
| 22 | view | view | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 turned | advcl |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 view | obj |
| 24 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 25 closely | advmod |
| 25 | closely | closely | ADV | _ | 22 view | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 drawn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past · passive | San's attention | a great mansion | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to mansion=Destination | ||||
| 2 | surround | participle | a great mansion not said here | a vast garden obl:agent | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | turn | past | San | this direction | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in direction=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | view | to-infinitive | San not said here | attention | closely property | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | attend | San | nom attention «cognition intransitive»: poss=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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