Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6, sentence 103
Her prayers concluded, the girl, without showing a trace of emotion, threw herself resolutely into the sea while the vessel continued on its way.
Who acts: prayers, girl · What happens: conclude, show, throw, continue, pray · To what, where: trace, girl, sea, vessel, way
This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prayers, 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 prayers | nmod:poss |
| 2 | prayers | prayer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 concluded | nsubj |
| 3 | concluded | conclude | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 girl | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 girl | det |
| 6 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 concluded | vocative |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 showing | punct |
| 8 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 9 showing | mark |
| 9 | showing | show | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 concluded | advcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 trace | det |
| 11 | trace | trace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 showing | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 emotion | case |
| 13 | emotion | emotion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 trace | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 threw | punct |
| 15 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 concluded | parataxis |
| 16 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 threw | obj |
| 17 | resolutely | resolutely | ADV | _ | 15 threw | advmod |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 sea | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sea | det |
| 20 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 threw | obl |
| 21 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 23 vessel | mark |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 vessel | det |
| 23 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 threw | advcl |
| 24 | continued | continue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 vessel | acl |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 way | case |
| 26 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 way | nmod:poss |
| 27 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 continued | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 concluded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | conclude | past | girl's prayers | the girl vocative | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | show | gerund | girl's prayers not said here | a trace of emotion | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent trace=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | throw | past | girl | into the sea result; the vessel advcl; resolutely property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer herself=Theme into sea=Result | ||||
| 4 | continue | participle | the vessel not said here | prayer's way | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | pray | girl | nom prayer «act intransitive»: 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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