Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4, sentence 76
Additional evidence was furnished him when he found a ring one day while rummaging among some old books and papers.
Who acts: son · What happens: furnish, find, rummage · To what, where: Additional evidence, ring, old books
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 (son), 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 | Additional | additional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 evidence | amod |
| 2 | evidence | evidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 furnished | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 furnished | aux:pass |
| 4 | furnished | furnish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 furnished | obj |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 found | advmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 found | nsubj |
| 8 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 furnished | advcl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 ring | det |
| 10 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 found | obj |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 day | nummod |
| 12 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 found | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 14 rummaging | mark |
| 14 | rummaging | rummage | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 found | advcl |
| 15 | among | among | ADP | _ | 18 books | case |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 books | det |
| 17 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 books | amod |
| 18 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 rummaging | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 papers | cc |
| 20 | papers | paper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 books | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 furnished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | furnish | past · passive | Additional evidence | son obj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | find | past | son | a ring | day | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Topic | |||
| 3 | rummage | gerund | son not said here | some old books and papers | vn rummage-35.5-1 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent among book=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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