Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 5, sentence 169
He went away, his head bowed in sadness, while the young girl, tears rolling down her cheeks, followed him with her eyes until she saw him disappear in the black depths of the wood.
Who acts: fashion, tears, girl · What happens: go away, bow, roll down, follow, see, disappear · To what, where: head, sadness, cheeks, fashion, black depths
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 (fashion, tears, girl), 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 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | away | away | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 head | punct |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 head | nmod:poss |
| 6 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 7 | bowed | bow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 head | acl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 sadness | case |
| 9 | sadness | sadness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bowed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 girl | punct |
| 11 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 14 girl | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 girl | det |
| 13 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 girl | amod |
| 14 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 tears | punct |
| 16 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 girl | conj |
| 17 | rolling | roll | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 tears | acl |
| 18 | down | down | ADP | _ | 20 cheeks | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 cheeks | nmod:poss |
| 20 | cheeks | cheek | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 rolling | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 followed | punct |
| 22 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 followed | obj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 eyes | case |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 26 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 followed | obl |
| 27 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 29 saw | mark |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 saw | nsubj |
| 29 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 followed | advcl |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 saw | obj |
| 31 | disappear | disappear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 saw | xcomp |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 depths | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 depths | det |
| 34 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 depths | amod |
| 35 | depths | depth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 disappear | obl |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 wood | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 wood | det |
| 38 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 depths | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go away | past | fashion | fashion's head | the young girl and tears parataxis; away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | bow | participle | fashion's head not said here | sadness | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in sadness=Location | ||||
| 3 | roll down | gerund | tears not said here | girl's cheeks | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cheek=Agent | ||||
| 4 | follow | past | fashion not said here | fashion | with girl's eyes | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 5 | see | past | girl | fashion | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | disappear | infinitive | fashion not said here | the black depths of the wood | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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