Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 5, sentence 14
Nights when attracted by the light of the lamps which it takes for flowers, it throws itself into the flame and perishes.”
Who acts: light, lamps, butterfly · What happens: attract, take, throw, perish, light · To what, where: Nights, butterfly, flame, lamps
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 (light, lamps, butterfly), 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 | Nights | night | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 attracted | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 attracted | advmod |
| 3 | attracted | attract | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 light | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 light | det |
| 6 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 attracted | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 lamps | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 lamps | det |
| 9 | lamps | lamp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 light | nmod |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 takes | nsubj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 takes | nsubj |
| 12 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 lamps | acl:relcl |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 flowers | case |
| 14 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 takes | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 throws | punct |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 throws | nsubj |
| 17 | throws | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 takes | conj |
| 18 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 throws | obj |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 flame | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 flame | det |
| 21 | flame | flame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 throws | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 perishes | cc |
| 23 | perishes | perish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 throws | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 attracted | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 attracted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attract | participle · passive | the light of the lamps | Nights | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | take | present | the lamps | for flowers; it nsubj | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for flower=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | throw | present | butterfly | butterfly | into the flame result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer itself=Theme into flame=Result | |||
| 4 | perish | present | butterfly not said here | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | light | the lamps | nom light «phenomenon 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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