Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4, sentence 38
Traveling speedily, the two brothers very soon reached the shores of the lake, of which we have spoken before.
Who acts: two brothers, we · What happens: travel, reach, speak · To what, where: shores · 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 (two brothers, we), 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 | Traveling | travel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 reached | advcl |
| 2 | speedily | speedily | ADV | _ | 1 Traveling | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Traveling | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 brothers | det |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 brothers | nummod |
| 6 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 reached | nsubj |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 soon | advmod |
| 8 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 reached | advmod |
| 9 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 shores | det |
| 11 | shores | shore | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 reached | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 lake | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 lake | det |
| 14 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 shores | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 spoken | punct |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 which | case |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 spoken | obl |
| 18 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 spoken | nsubj |
| 19 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 spoken | aux |
| 20 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 reached | conj |
| 21 | before | before | ADV | _ | 20 spoken | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travel | gerund | the two brothers not said here | speedily property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | reach | past | the two brothers | the shores of the lake | soon property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent shore=Theme | |||
| 3 | speak speech: other | present · perfect | we | which obl; before property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=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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