Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4, sentence 134
Each day for hours at a time he would walk in the neighborhood of the garden where he had first seen the young girl who was constantly occupying his thoughts.
Who acts: curiosity, young girl · What happens: walk, see, occupy, think · To what, where: neighborhood, young girl, thoughts
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 (curiosity, young girl), 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 | Each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 day | det |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 walk | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 hours | case |
| 4 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 day | nmod |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 time | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 time | det |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 walk | obl |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 walk | nsubj |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 walk | aux |
| 10 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 neighborhood | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 neighborhood | det |
| 13 | neighborhood | neighborhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 walk | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 garden | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 garden | det |
| 16 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 neighborhood | nmod |
| 17 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 21 seen | advmod |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 seen | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 seen | aux |
| 20 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 21 seen | advmod |
| 21 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 garden | acl:relcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 girl | det |
| 23 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 girl | amod |
| 24 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 seen | obj |
| 25 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 occupying | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 occupying | aux |
| 27 | constantly | constantly | ADV | _ | 28 occupying | advmod |
| 28 | occupying | occupy | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 girl | acl:relcl |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 thoughts | nmod:poss |
| 30 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 occupying | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 walk | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | would | curiosity | the neighborhood of the garden | day; time | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in neighborhood=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | see | past · perfect | curiosity | the young girl | first property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer girl=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | occupy | past · progressive | the young girl | curiosity's thoughts | constantly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus thought=Experiencer | |||
| 4 | think | curiosity | nom thought «cognition 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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