Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 5, sentence 123
Now it came to pass one night, that her mother, unable to sleep, arose from her couch and went walking through the house.
Who acts: Life · What happens: come, pass, sleep, arise, go, walk · To what, where: couch, house
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: who acts (Life), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 pass | mark |
| 5 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 came | xcomp |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 night | nummod |
| 7 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pass | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 unable | punct |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 unable | mark |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 mother | nmod:poss |
| 11 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 unable | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 mother | punct |
| 13 | unable | unable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 came | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 sleep | mark |
| 15 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 unable | xcomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 arose | punct |
| 17 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | parataxis |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 couch | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 couch | nmod:poss |
| 20 | couch | couch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 arose | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 went | cc |
| 22 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 arose | conj |
| 23 | walking | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 went | xcomp |
| 24 | through | through | ADP | _ | 26 house | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 house | det |
| 26 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 walking | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Life | now | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pass | to-infinitive | Life not said here | night | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sleep | to-infinitive | Life not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | arise | past | mother's couch | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | go | past | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 6 | walk | gerund | the house | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through house=Trajectory |
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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