Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 5, sentence 160
The two lovers embraced and wept bitterly at being forced to part in so abrupt a fashion.
Who acts: two lovers · What happens: embrace, weep, force · To what, where: part
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 (two lovers), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 lovers | det |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 lovers | nummod |
| 3 | lovers | lover | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 embraced | nsubj |
| 4 | embraced | embrace | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 wept | cc |
| 6 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 embraced | conj |
| 7 | bitterly | bitterly | ADV | _ | 6 wept | advmod |
| 8 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 10 forced | mark |
| 9 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 forced | aux:pass |
| 10 | forced | force | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 wept | ccomp |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 part | mark |
| 12 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 forced | xcomp |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 abrupt | case |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 abrupt | advmod |
| 15 | abrupt | abrupt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 forced | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 fashion | det |
| 17 | fashion | fashion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 abrupt | nsubj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 embraced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | embrace | past | the two lovers | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | weep | past | the two lovers not said here | bitterly property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | force | gerund · passive | the two lovers not said here | part | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP» |
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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