Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 5, sentence 8
He walked in front of her, tossed the letter over the garden wall, and left.
Who acts: San · What happens: walk, toss, leave · To what, where: front, letter, garden wall
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 (San), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 walked | nsubj |
| 2 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 front | case |
| 4 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 walked | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 her | case |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 front | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 tossed | punct |
| 8 | tossed | toss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 walked | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 letter | det |
| 10 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tossed | obj |
| 11 | over | over | ADP | _ | 14 wall | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 wall | det |
| 13 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wall | compound |
| 14 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 letter | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 left | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 left | cc |
| 17 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 walked | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | San | front of girl | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in front=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | toss | past | San not said here | the letter | the garden wall | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent letter=Theme over wall=Destination | |||
| 3 | leave | past | San not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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