Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 5, sentence 31
One might have thought she was playing the flute, so sweet were the soft, low sounds of song which came from her throat.
Who acts: girl, song · What happens: think, play, be, come · To what, where: One, flute, sweet soft low sounds, throat · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (girl, song), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 thought | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 thought | aux |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 thought | aux |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 playing | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 playing | aux |
| 7 | playing | play | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 thought | ccomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 flute | det |
| 9 | flute | flute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 playing | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sounds | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 sweet | advmod |
| 12 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 sounds | amod |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 sounds | cop |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 sounds | det |
| 15 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 sounds | amod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 soft | punct |
| 17 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 sounds | amod |
| 18 | sounds | sound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 thought | parataxis |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 song | case |
| 20 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sounds | nmod |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 came | nsubj |
| 22 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 song | acl:relcl |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 throat | case |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 throat | nmod:poss |
| 25 | throat | throat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 came | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | might · perfect · passive | One | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | play | past · progressive | girl | the flute | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flute=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | the sweet soft low sounds | of song | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | come | past | song | girl's throat | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from throat=Initial_Location |
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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