Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 5, sentence 2
When night had lowered its curtain of darkness she went down into the garden and caught sight of San-Syeng.
Who acts: she · What happens: lower, go down, catch, sight · To what, where: night, garden, sight, San
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 (she), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 lowered | advmod |
| 2 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lowered | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lowered | aux |
| 4 | lowered | lower | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 went | advcl |
| 5 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 curtain | nmod:poss |
| 6 | curtain | curtain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lowered | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 darkness | case |
| 8 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 curtain | nmod |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 went | nsubj |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | down | down | ADV | _ | 10 went | advmod |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 garden | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 garden | det |
| 14 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 went | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 caught | cc |
| 16 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 went | conj |
| 17 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 caught | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 San | case |
| 19 | San | San | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 sight | nmod |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 Syeng | punct |
| 21 | Syeng | Syeng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 San | flat |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lower | past · perfect · passive | night | its curtain of darkness obj | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme curtain=Destination | ||||
| 2 | go down | past | she | the garden | down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||
| 3 | catch | past | she not said here | sight of San | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme | ||||
| 4 | sight | San | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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