Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 5, sentence 124
Passing before the door of her daughter’s room she heard, above the sound of mingled kisses, her daughter speaking with some one.
Who acts: mother, daughter · What happens: pass, hear, mingle, speak · To what, where: door, sound · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (mother, daughter), 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 | Passing | pass | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | before | before | ADP | _ | 4 door | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 door | det |
| 4 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Passing | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 room | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 7 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 room | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 daughter | case |
| 9 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 door | nmod |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 heard | nsubj |
| 11 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 room | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sound | punct |
| 13 | above | above | ADP | _ | 15 sound | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 sound | det |
| 15 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 heard | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 kisses | case |
| 17 | mingled | mingle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 kisses | amod |
| 18 | kisses | kiss | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 sound | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 daughter | punct |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 21 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sound | conj |
| 22 | speaking | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 daughter | acl |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 one | case |
| 24 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 one | det |
| 25 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 speaking | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Passing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | gerund | the door of mother's daughter's room | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before door=Location | |||||
| 2 | hear | past | mother | the sound of mingled kisses and mother's daughter | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | mingle | participle | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | speak speech: other | gerund | mother's daughter not said here | with some one | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with one=Co-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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