Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4, sentence 112
He walked on for a few paces and then, yielding to some indescribable impulse, he retraced his steps.
Who acts: San · What happens: walk on, yield, retrace, step · To what, where: steps
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 walked | nsubj |
| 2 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 2 walked | compound:prt |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 paces | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 paces | det |
| 6 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 paces | amod |
| 7 | paces | pace | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 walked | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 yielding | cc |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 yielding | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 yielding | punct |
| 11 | yielding | yield | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 walked | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 impulse | case |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 impulse | det |
| 14 | indescribable | indescribable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 impulse | amod |
| 15 | impulse | impulse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 yielding | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 retraced | punct |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 retraced | nsubj |
| 18 | retraced | retrace | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 walked | conj |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 steps | nmod:poss |
| 20 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 retraced | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk on | past | San | for a few paces | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | yield | gerund | San not said here | then | to some indescribable impulse | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to impulse=Theme | |||
| 3 | retrace | past | San | San's steps | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | step | San | nom step «act transitive»: 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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