Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 5, sentence 17
The next evening when San-Syeng returned to his post by the garden wall he saw the girl raise both hands and point to the moon.
Who acts: San, girl · What happens: return, see, raise · To what, where: garden wall, hands · 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 (San, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 evening | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 evening | amod |
| 3 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 returned | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 returned | advmod |
| 5 | San | San | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 returned | nsubj |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Syeng | punct |
| 7 | Syeng | Syeng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 San | flat |
| 8 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 post | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 post | nmod:poss |
| 11 | post | post | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 returned | obl |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 wall | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 wall | det |
| 14 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wall | compound |
| 15 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 returned | obl |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 saw | nsubj |
| 17 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 wall | acl:relcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 girl | det |
| 19 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 raise | nsubj |
| 20 | raise | raise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 saw | ccomp |
| 21 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 hands | det |
| 22 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 raise | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 point | cc |
| 24 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 hands | conj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 moon | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 moon | det |
| 27 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 point | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | San | evening | to San's post result; by the garden wall | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to post=Result | |||
| 2 | see | past | San | the garden wall not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | raise | infinitive | the girl | both hands and point to the moon | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=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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