Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 5, sentence 163
He slipped from his finger the ring which he had found among the books long years before and the significance of which he did not even guess.
Who acts: San · What happens: slip, find, not guess · To what, where: ring
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 (San), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 slipped | nsubj |
| 2 | slipped | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 finger | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 finger | nmod:poss |
| 5 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 slipped | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ring | det |
| 7 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 slipped | obj |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 found | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 found | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 found | aux |
| 11 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 ring | acl:relcl |
| 12 | among | among | ADP | _ | 16 years | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 books | det |
| 14 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 years | nsubj |
| 15 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 years | amod |
| 16 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 found | obl |
| 17 | before | before | ADV | _ | 16 years | advmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 significance | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 significance | det |
| 20 | significance | significance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 years | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 which | case |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 guess | obl |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 guess | nsubj |
| 24 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 guess | aux |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 guess | advmod |
| 26 | even | even | ADV | _ | 27 guess | advmod |
| 27 | guess | guess | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 significance | acl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 slipped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slip | past | San | the ring | from San's finger | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent ring=Patient from finger=Co-Patient | |||
| 2 | find | past · perfect · passive | the ring | year | San nsubj | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||
| 3 | not guess | past · do-support | San | of the significance | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.attribute»: agent=Agent of which=Theme |
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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