Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4, sentence 115
It is true that his eyes had never met such a sight--a bright oval face as fresh as a half ripened peach, eyes that rivaled the stars in their brilliancy.
Who acts: look, eyes · What happens: be, not meet, ripen, rival · To what, where: sight, stars, brilliancy
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 (look, eyes), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 true | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | cop |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 met | mark |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 6 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 met | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 met | aux |
| 8 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 9 met | advmod |
| 9 | met | meet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 true | advcl |
| 10 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 sight | det:predet |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 sight | det |
| 12 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 met | obj |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 17 face | punct |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 face | det |
| 15 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 face | amod |
| 16 | oval | oval | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 face | amod |
| 17 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 true | conj |
| 18 | as | as | ADV | _ | 19 fresh | advmod |
| 19 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 face | amod |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 half | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 half | det |
| 22 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 19 fresh | obl |
| 23 | ripened | ripen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 peach | amod |
| 24 | peach | peach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 half | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 eyes | punct |
| 26 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 half | conj |
| 27 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 rivaled | nsubj |
| 28 | rivaled | rival | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 eyes | acl:relcl |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 stars | det |
| 30 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 rivaled | obj |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 brilliancy | case |
| 32 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 brilliancy | nmod:poss |
| 33 | brilliancy | brilliancy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 rivaled | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | look | a bright oval face conj; true property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not meet | past · perfect | man's eyes | such sight | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | ripen | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | rival | past | eyes | the stars | eyes's brilliancy | tree rules |
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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