Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 4, sentence 9
Since she wished to have some sign which would enable her to recognize her son, she took his arm and with a needle traced on the pink flesh the characters forming the name of San-Syeng.
Who acts: Yeng, sign, characters · What happens: wish, have, enable, recognize, take, trace · To what, where: sign, Yeng, son, arm, needle, pink flesh
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, sign, characters), 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 | Since | since | SCONJ | _ | 3 wished | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 wished | nsubj |
| 3 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 took | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 have | mark |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wished | xcomp |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 sign | det |
| 7 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 have | obj |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 enable | nsubj |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 enable | aux |
| 10 | enable | enable | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 sign | acl:relcl |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 enable | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 recognize | mark |
| 13 | recognize | recognize | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 enable | xcomp |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 son | nmod:poss |
| 15 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 recognize | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 wished | punct |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 took | nsubj |
| 18 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 arm | nmod:poss |
| 20 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 took | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 needle | cc |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 needle | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 needle | det |
| 24 | needle | needle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 took | conj |
| 25 | traced | trace | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 needle | acl |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 flesh | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 flesh | det |
| 28 | pink | pink | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 flesh | amod |
| 29 | flesh | flesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 traced | obl |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 characters | det |
| 31 | characters | character | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 flesh | conj |
| 32 | forming | form | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 31 characters | acl |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 name | det |
| 34 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 forming | obj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 San | case |
| 36 | San | San | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 name | nmod |
| 37 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 36 San | punct |
| 38 | Syeng | Syeng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 San | flat |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | past | Yeng | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | have not said to happen | to-infinitive | Yeng not said here | some sign | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sign=Patient | ||||
| 3 | enable | would | some sign | Yeng | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | recognize | to-infinitive | Yeng not said here | Yeng's son | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer son=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | take | past | Yeng | man's arm | a needle conj | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme | |||
| 6 | trace | participle | a needle not said here | the pink flesh and the characters | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on flesh=Destination | ||||
| 7 | form | gerund | the characters not said here | the name of San | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location name=Theme | ||||
| 8 | name | San | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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