Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4, sentence 122
Finally, he decided to find a lodging, hoping also to obtain some information concerning the beautiful girl whose charms still held him.
Who acts: beautiful unknown, charms · What happens: decide, find, hope, obtain, concern, hold · To what, where: lodging, information, beautiful unknown
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 (beautiful unknown, charms), 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 | Finally | finally | ADV | _ | 4 decided | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Finally | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 decided | nsubj |
| 4 | decided | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 find | mark |
| 6 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 decided | xcomp |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 lodging | det |
| 8 | lodging | lodging | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 find | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 hoping | punct |
| 10 | hoping | hope | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 decided | advcl |
| 11 | also | also | ADV | _ | 13 obtain | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 obtain | mark |
| 13 | obtain | obtain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 hoping | xcomp |
| 14 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 information | det |
| 15 | information | information | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 obtain | obj |
| 16 | concerning | concern | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 girl | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 girl | det |
| 18 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 girl | amod |
| 19 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 information | nmod |
| 20 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 21 charms | nmod:poss |
| 21 | charms | charm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 held | nsubj |
| 22 | still | still | ADV | _ | 23 held | advmod |
| 23 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 girl | acl:relcl |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 held | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 decided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decide | past | beautiful unknown = unknown | finally property | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | find not said to happen | to-infinitive | beautiful unknown = unknown not said here | a lodging | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lodging=Topic | ||||
| 3 | hope | gerund | beautiful unknown = unknown not said here | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | obtain not said to happen | to-infinitive | beautiful unknown = unknown not said here | some information | concern the beautiful girl | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset information=Theme | |||
| 5 | concern | gerund | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 6 | hold | past | charms | beautiful unknown = unknown | still | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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