Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 5, sentence 82
The young girl nodded her head as a sign of acquiescence and withdrew into the house.
Who acts: young girl · What happens: nod, withdraw, sign · To what, where: head, house, acquiescence
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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 girl | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 girl | amod |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 nodded | nsubj |
| 4 | nodded | nod | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 head | nmod:poss |
| 6 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 nodded | obj |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 sign | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 sign | det |
| 9 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 nodded | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 acquiescence | case |
| 11 | acquiescence | acquiescence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sign | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 withdrew | cc |
| 13 | withdrew | withdraw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 nodded | conj |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 house | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 house | det |
| 16 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 withdrew | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 nodded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nod | past | the young girl | girl's head | as a sign of acquiescence | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient | |||
| 2 | withdraw | past | the young girl not said here | the house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into house=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | sign | acquiescence | nom sign «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78208/7/82/