Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 5, sentence 46
Supporting his head in her hands, and after dusting off his clothes which had been soiled by the fall, she assisted him to arise and led him to a nearby bench.
Who acts: girl, fall · What happens: support, dust off, soil, assist, arise, lead · To what, where: head, hands, clothes, San, nearby bench
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, fall), 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 | Supporting | support | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 assisted | advcl |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 head | nmod:poss |
| 3 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Supporting | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 hands | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 hands | nmod:poss |
| 6 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Supporting | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 dusting | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 dusting | cc |
| 9 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 10 dusting | mark |
| 10 | dusting | dust | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Supporting | conj |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 10 dusting | compound:prt |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 13 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 10 dusting | obj |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 soiled | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 soiled | aux |
| 16 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 soiled | aux:pass |
| 17 | soiled | soil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 clothes | acl:relcl |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 fall | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 fall | det |
| 20 | fall | fall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 soiled | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Supporting | punct |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 assisted | nsubj |
| 23 | assisted | assist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 assisted | obj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 arise | mark |
| 26 | arise | arise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 assisted | xcomp |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 led | cc |
| 28 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 assisted | conj |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 led | obj |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 bench | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 bench | det |
| 32 | nearby | nearby | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 bench | amod |
| 33 | bench | bench | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 led | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 assisted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | support | gerund | girl not said here | San's head | girl's hands | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer head=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | dust off | gerund | girl not said here | San's clothes | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent clothes=Source | ||||
| 3 | soil | past · perfect · passive | the fall | San's clothes | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Destination | ||||
| 4 | assist | past | girl | San | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 5 | arise | to-infinitive | girl not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | lead | past | girl not said here | San | a nearby bench | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to bench=Destination |
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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