Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4, sentence 16
Her cup was filled to the brim with sorrow, for her husband had been murdered before her eyes and now her son was to be left on a street corner.
What happens: fill, murder, be, leave · To what, where: cup, husband, street corner
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: 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 cup | nmod:poss |
| 2 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 filled | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 filled | aux:pass |
| 4 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 brim | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 brim | det |
| 7 | brim | brim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 filled | obl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 sorrow | case |
| 9 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 brim | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 murdered | punct |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 16 murdered | mark |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 husband | nmod:poss |
| 13 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 murdered | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 murdered | aux |
| 15 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 murdered | aux:pass |
| 16 | murdered | murder | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 filled | parataxis |
| 17 | before | before | ADP | _ | 19 eyes | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 19 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 murdered | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 son | cc |
| 21 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 son | advmod |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 son | nmod:poss |
| 23 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 eyes | conj |
| 24 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 murdered | advcl |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 left | mark |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 left | aux:pass |
| 27 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 was | xcomp |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 31 corner | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 corner | det |
| 30 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 corner | compound |
| 31 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 left | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 filled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | past · passive | Yeng's cup | to the brim with sorrow | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | murder | past · perfect · passive | Yeng's husband | before Yeng's eyes and Yeng's son | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | be | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | leave | to-infinitive · passive | a street corner | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: on corner=Location |
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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