Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4, sentence 162
Now it came to pass that her father appeared before her in a dream and said, “My daughter, there is stopping at the inn nearest our home a traveler whose merits I bring to your attention.
Who acts: mind, father, daughter, nearest, your · What happens: come, pass, appear, say, stop, merit · To what, where: dream, inn, merits, attention · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (mind, father, daughter, nearest), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 pass | mark |
| 5 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 came | xcomp |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 appeared | mark |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 father | nmod:poss |
| 8 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 appeared | nsubj |
| 9 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pass | advcl |
| 10 | before | before | ADP | _ | 11 her | case |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 appeared | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 dream | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 dream | det |
| 14 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 appeared | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 said | cc |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 stopping | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 stopping | punct |
| 19 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 20 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 stopping | nsubj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 is | punct |
| 22 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 23 is | expl |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 stopping | aux |
| 24 | stopping | stop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 said | ccomp |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 inn | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 inn | det |
| 27 | inn | inn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 stopping | obl |
| 28 | nearest | near | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 34 merits | nsubj |
| 29 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 home | nmod:poss |
| 30 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 nearest | obl |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 traveler | det |
| 32 | traveler | traveler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 merits | nsubj |
| 33 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 34 merits | nmod:poss |
| 34 | merits | merit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 stopping | parataxis |
| 35 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 bring | nsubj |
| 36 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 merits | acl:relcl |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 attention | case |
| 38 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 attention | nmod:poss |
| 39 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 bring | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | mind | now | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pass | to-infinitive | mind not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | appear | past | girl's father | a dream | before girl | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before she=Location | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | mind not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | stop in a quote | present · progressive | My daughter | the inn | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at inn=Location | ||||
| 6 | merit in a quote | nearest our home | a traveler nsubj; whose nmod:poss | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | bring in a quote | present | mind | merits not said here | your attention | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent merit=Theme to attention=Destination | |||
| 8 | attend in a quote | your | nom attention «cognition intransitive»: 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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