Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 5, sentence 32
Picking up a dead branch she amused herself by whipping the leaves which strewed the ground.
Who acts: girl, leaves · What happens: pick up, amuse, whip, strew · To what, where: dead branch, girl, leaves, ground
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, leaves), 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 | Picking | pick | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 amused | advcl |
| 2 | up | up | ADP | _ | 1 Picking | compound:prt |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 branch | det |
| 4 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 branch | amod |
| 5 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Picking | obj |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 amused | nsubj |
| 7 | amused | amuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 amused | obj |
| 9 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 10 whipping | mark |
| 10 | whipping | whip | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 amused | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 leaves | det |
| 12 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 whipping | obj |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 strewed | nsubj |
| 14 | strewed | strew | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 leaves | acl:relcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 ground | det |
| 16 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 strewed | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 amused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pick up | gerund | girl not said here | a dead branch | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent branch=Topic | ||||
| 2 | amuse | past | girl | girl | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus herself=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | whip | gerund | girl not said here | the leaves | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent leaf=Material | ||||
| 4 | strew | past | the leaves | the ground | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ground=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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