Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 5, sentence 119
Their lips were united in one long kiss.
What happens: unite · To what, where: lips, one long kiss
This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 lips | nmod:poss |
| 2 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 united | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 united | aux:pass |
| 4 | united | unite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 kiss | case |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 kiss | nummod |
| 7 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 kiss | amod |
| 8 | kiss | kiss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 united | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 united | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | unite | past · passive | wife's lips | one long kiss | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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