Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4, sentence 159
These words filled San-Syeng with a deep joy for they seemed to be a reply to his own verses and he felt overwhelmed with emotion.
Who acts: words, branches, word · What happens: fill, seem, be, overwhelm, verse · To what, where: San, reply, word
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 (words, branches, word), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 words | det |
| 2 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 filled | nsubj |
| 3 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | San | San | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 filled | obj |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 San | punct |
| 6 | Syeng | Syeng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 San | flat |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 joy | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 joy | det |
| 9 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 joy | amod |
| 10 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 filled | obl |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 seemed | case |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 seemed | nsubj |
| 13 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 filled | parataxis |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 reply | mark |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 reply | cop |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 reply | det |
| 17 | reply | reply | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 seemed | xcomp |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 verses | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 verses | nmod:poss |
| 20 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 verses | amod |
| 21 | verses | verse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 reply | nmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 overwhelmed | cc |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 overwhelmed | nsubj |
| 24 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 overwhelmed | aux:pass |
| 25 | overwhelmed | overwhelm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 seemed | conj |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 emotion | case |
| 27 | emotion | emotion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 overwhelmed | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 filled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | past | this words | San | with a deep joy | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent san=Patient with joy=Instrument | |||
| 2 | seem | past | branches = branch | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is a | to-infinitive | branches = branch not said here | a reply | to word's own verses | tree rules | |||
| 4 | overwhelm | past · passive | word | with emotion | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | verse | word | nom verse «communication 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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