Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4, sentence 121
For a considerable time he remained in the one spot, even after the beautiful unknown had disappeared.
Who acts: San, beautiful unknown · What happens: remain, disappear · To what, where: one spot
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, beautiful unknown), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | considerable | considerable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 remained | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 remained | nsubj |
| 6 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 spot | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 spot | det |
| 9 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 spot | compound |
| 10 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 remained | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 disappeared | punct |
| 12 | even | even | ADV | _ | 18 disappeared | advmod |
| 13 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 18 disappeared | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 unknown | det |
| 15 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 unknown | amod |
| 16 | unknown | unknown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 disappeared | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 disappeared | aux |
| 18 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 remained | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 remained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | past | San | the one spot | time | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in spot=Location | |||
| 2 | disappear | past · perfect | the beautiful unknown | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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