Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 5, sentence 185
But he was only awaiting a favorable occasion and this was not long in presenting itself.
Who acts: Mi, this · What happens: await, not be, present · To what, where: favorable occasion, occasion
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 (Mi, this), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 awaiting | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 awaiting | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 awaiting | aux |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 awaiting | advmod |
| 5 | awaiting | await | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 occasion | det |
| 7 | favorable | favorable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 occasion | amod |
| 8 | occasion | occasion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 awaiting | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 long | cc |
| 10 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 long | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 long | cop |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 long | advmod |
| 13 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 awaiting | conj |
| 14 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 15 presenting | mark |
| 15 | presenting | present | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 long | advcl |
| 16 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 presenting | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 awaiting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | await | past · progressive | Mi | a favorable occasion | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not is | past | this | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | present | gerund | this not said here | occasion | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=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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