Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 5, sentence 93
The hours rolled around, however, and the time came for San-Syeng to visit the girl once more.
Who acts: hours, time · What happens: roll around, come, visit · To what, where: girl
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 (hours, time), 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 | 2 hours | det |
| 2 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 rolled | nsubj |
| 3 | rolled | roll | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | around | around | ADV | _ | 3 rolled | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 however | punct |
| 6 | however | however | ADV | _ | 3 rolled | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 came | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 came | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 time | det |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | nsubj |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rolled | parataxis |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 San | case |
| 13 | San | San | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 came | obl |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 Syeng | punct |
| 15 | Syeng | Syeng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 San | flat |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 visit | mark |
| 17 | visit | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 came | advcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 girl | det |
| 19 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 visit | obj |
| 20 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 21 more | advmod |
| 21 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 17 visit | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rolled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roll around | participle | the hours | around, however property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | past | the time | for San | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | visit | to-infinitive | the time not said here | the girl | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Co-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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