Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4, sentence 17
More dead than alive, she gently placed the child on the ground after giving him a last fond kiss.
Who acts: Yeng · What happens: place, give · To what, where: child, ground, last fond kiss, husband
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 (Yeng), 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 | More | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 dead | amod |
| 2 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 placed | ccomp |
| 3 | than | than | ADP | _ | 4 alive | case |
| 4 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 dead | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 placed | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 placed | nsubj |
| 7 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 8 placed | advmod |
| 8 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 child | det |
| 10 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 placed | obj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 ground | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 ground | det |
| 13 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 placed | obl |
| 14 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 15 giving | mark |
| 15 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 placed | advcl |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 giving | iobj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 kiss | det |
| 18 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 kiss | amod |
| 19 | fond | fond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 kiss | amod |
| 20 | kiss | kiss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 giving | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 placed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | place | past | Yeng | the child | the ground | gently property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme on ground=Destination | ||
| 2 | give | gerund | Yeng not said here | a last fond kiss | husband | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient kiss=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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