Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 5, sentence 88
Similar reflections agitated San-Syeng’s mind.
Who acts: Similar reflections, San · What happens: agitate, mind · To what, where: mind, Similar reflections
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 (Similar reflections, 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 | Similar | similar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 reflections | amod |
| 2 | reflections | reflection | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | agitated | agitate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 reflections | acl |
| 4 | San | San | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 mind | nmod:poss |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Syeng | punct |
| 6 | Syeng | Syeng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 San | flat |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 San | case |
| 8 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 agitated | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 reflections | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agitate | participle | Similar reflections not said here | San's mind | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus mind=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | mind | San | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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