Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4, sentence 150
She wondered if it were not the young man whom she had seen a few days before walking near the garden.
Who acts: girl, servant · What happens: wonder, not be, see, walk · To what, where: young man, garden
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 (girl, servant), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 wondered | nsubj |
| 2 | wondered | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 man | mark |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 man | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 man | cop |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 man | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 man | det |
| 8 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 man | amod |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wondered | ccomp |
| 10 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 seen | obj |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 seen | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 seen | aux |
| 13 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 man | acl:relcl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 days | det |
| 15 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 days | amod |
| 16 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 seen | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 18 walking | mark |
| 18 | walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 seen | advcl |
| 19 | near | near | ADP | _ | 21 garden | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 garden | det |
| 21 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 walking | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wondered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wonder speech: ask | past | girl | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | not is a a condition, not said to happen | past | servant | the young man | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see | past · perfect | girl | the young man | day | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | walk | gerund | girl not said here | the garden | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near garden=Trajectory |
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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