Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 5, sentence 172
At last, she decided to go to her room, following in spirit San-Syeng who was galloping briskly toward the Capital.
Who acts: forest, spirit · What happens: decide, go, follow, gallop · To what, where: last, room, spirit
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 (forest, spirit), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 decided | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 last | punct |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 decided | nsubj |
| 5 | decided | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 go | mark |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 decided | xcomp |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 room | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 room | nmod:poss |
| 10 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 go | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 following | punct |
| 12 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 go | advcl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 spirit | case |
| 14 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 following | obl |
| 15 | San | San | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 spirit | appos |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 Syeng | punct |
| 17 | Syeng | Syeng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 San | flat |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 galloping | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 galloping | aux |
| 20 | galloping | gallop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 spirit | acl |
| 21 | briskly | briskly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 galloping | xcomp |
| 22 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 24 Capital | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Capital | det |
| 24 | Capital | Capital | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 briskly | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 decided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decide | past | forest | last | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | forest not said here | forest's room | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to room=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | follow | gerund | forest not said here | spirit | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in spirit=Location | ||||
| 4 | gallop | past · progressive | spirit | briskly property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «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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