Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 5, sentence 28
Long before the appointed time he was in the garden, worried and anxious as to whether he had not given an erroneous interpretation to the young girl’s gesture.
Who acts: meaning, young girl · What happens: appoint, be, not give, gesture · To what, where: garden, meaning
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 (meaning, young 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 | Long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 garden | advmod |
| 2 | before | before | ADP | _ | 5 time | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 time | det |
| 4 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 time | amod |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 garden | obl |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 garden | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 garden | cop |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 garden | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 garden | det |
| 10 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 worried | punct |
| 12 | worried | worried | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 garden | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 anxious | cc |
| 14 | anxious | anxious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 worried | conj |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 given | mark |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 as | fixed |
| 17 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 21 given | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 given | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 given | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 given | advmod |
| 21 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 anxious | advcl |
| 22 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 interpretation | det |
| 23 | erroneous | erroneous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 interpretation | amod |
| 24 | interpretation | interpretation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 given | obj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 gesture | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 girl | det |
| 27 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 girl | amod |
| 28 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 gesture | nmod:poss |
| 29 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 28 girl | case |
| 30 | gesture | gesture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 interpretation | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 garden | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appoint | participle | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is | past | meaning | the garden | time | long property | tree rules | ||
| 3 | be | meaning not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | not give | past · perfect · passive | meaning | a erroneous interpretation obj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient interpretation=Theme | ||||
| 5 | gesture | the young girl | nom gesture «act intransitive»: poss=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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