Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 5, sentence 189
He sensed the flutter of the wings of Death--wings drenched with the tears of weeping humanity.
Who acts: condition, wings · What happens: sense, drench, flutter · To what, where: flutter, wings
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 (condition, wings), 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 sensed | nsubj |
| 2 | sensed | sense | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 flutter | det |
| 4 | flutter | flutter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sensed | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 wings | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 wings | det |
| 7 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 flutter | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Death | case |
| 9 | Death | Death | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 wings | nmod |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 11 wings | punct |
| 11 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 wings | conj |
| 12 | drenched | drench | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 wings | acl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 tears | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 tears | det |
| 15 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 drenched | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 humanity | case |
| 17 | weeping | weeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 humanity | compound |
| 18 | humanity | humanity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tears | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sensed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sense | past | condition | the flutter of the wings of Death and wings | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer flutter=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | drench | participle | wings not said here | with the tears of weeping humanity | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with tear=Theme | ||||
| 3 | flutter | the wings of Death and wings | nom flutter «act intransitive»: of=agent |
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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