Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4, sentence 151
Still impressed by what she had heard, she took her own instrument and in turn improvised the following verses:
Who acts: girl · What happens: impress, hear, take, improvise, follow · To what, where: own instrument, following verses, turn
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), 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 | Still | still | ADV | _ | 2 impressed | advmod |
| 2 | impressed | impress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 what | case |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 impressed | obl |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 heard | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 heard | aux |
| 7 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 what | acl:relcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 took | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 took | nsubj |
| 10 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 impressed | parataxis |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 instrument | nmod:poss |
| 12 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 instrument | amod |
| 13 | instrument | instrument | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 took | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 improvised | cc |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 turn | case |
| 16 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 improvised | obl |
| 17 | improvised | improvise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 took | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 verses | det |
| 19 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 verses | amod |
| 20 | verses | verse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 improvised | obj |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 impressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | impress | participle | still | what obl | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | hear | past · perfect | girl | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | take | past | girl | girl's own instrument | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent instrument=Theme | ||||
| 4 | improvise | past | girl not said here | the following verses | turn | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent verse=Result | |||
| 5 | 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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