Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4, sentence 18
With a supreme effort she regained her courage and walked slowly away, shedding tears of sorrow, while the hunger-cries of the baby grew louder and louder.
Who acts: Yeng, hunger cries, baby · What happens: regain, walk away, shed, grow, cry · To what, where: courage, tears
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, hunger cries, baby), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 4 effort | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 effort | det |
| 3 | supreme | supreme | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 effort | amod |
| 4 | effort | effort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 regained | obl |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 regained | nsubj |
| 6 | regained | regain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 courage | nmod:poss |
| 8 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 regained | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 walked | cc |
| 10 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 regained | conj |
| 11 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 10 walked | advmod |
| 12 | away | away | ADV | _ | 10 walked | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 shedding | punct |
| 14 | shedding | shed | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 walked | advcl |
| 15 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 shedding | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 sorrow | case |
| 17 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tears | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 grew | punct |
| 19 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 27 grew | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 cries | det |
| 21 | hunger | hunger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 cries | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 hunger | punct |
| 23 | cries | cry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 grew | nsubj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 baby | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 baby | det |
| 26 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 cries | nmod |
| 27 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 walked | conj |
| 28 | louder | loud | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 27 grew | xcomp |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 louder | cc |
| 30 | louder | loud | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 28 louder | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 regained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | regain | past | Yeng | Yeng's courage | with a supreme effort | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courage=Theme | |||
| 2 | walk away | past | Yeng not said here | away, slowly property | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | shed | gerund | Yeng not said here | tears of sorrow | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tear=Source | ||||
| 4 | grow | past | the hunger cries of the baby | loud property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | cry | the baby | nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=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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