Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4, sentence 138
He took his flute, and, stationing himself near the garden, improvised the following verses:
Who acts: stroller · What happens: take, station, improvise, follow · To what, where: flute, stroller, garden, following verses
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 (stroller), 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 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 flute | nmod:poss |
| 4 | flute | flute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 stationing | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 stationing | cc |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 stationing | punct |
| 8 | stationing | station | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 took | advcl |
| 9 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 stationing | obj |
| 10 | near | near | ADP | _ | 12 garden | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 garden | det |
| 12 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stationing | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 improvised | punct |
| 14 | improvised | improvise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 verses | det |
| 16 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 verses | amod |
| 17 | verses | verse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 improvised | obj |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | stroller | stroller's flute | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flute=Theme | ||||
| 2 | station | gerund | stroller not said here | stroller | the garden | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme near garden=Destination | |||
| 3 | improvise | past | stroller not said here | the following verses | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent verse=Result | ||||
| 4 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «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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