Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6, sentence 104
Cheng-Si, who fully expected to drown in a few minutes, perceived with astonishment that she was resting on the surface of the water.
Who acts: Cheng, girl · What happens: expect, drown, perceive, rest · To what, where: few minutes, astonishment, surface
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 (Cheng, 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 | Cheng | Cheng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 expected | nsubj |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Si | punct |
| 3 | Si | Si | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Cheng | flat |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 expected | punct |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 expected | nsubj |
| 6 | fully | fully | ADV | _ | 7 expected | advmod |
| 7 | expected | expect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 drown | mark |
| 9 | drown | drown | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 expected | xcomp |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 minutes | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 minutes | det |
| 12 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 minutes | amod |
| 13 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 drown | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 perceived | punct |
| 15 | perceived | perceive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 minutes | acl |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 astonishment | case |
| 17 | astonishment | astonishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 perceived | obl |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 resting | mark |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 resting | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 resting | aux |
| 21 | resting | rest | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 astonishment | acl |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 surface | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 surface | det |
| 24 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 resting | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 water | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 water | det |
| 27 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 surface | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 expected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | expect | past | Cheng | who nsubj; fully property | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | drown not said to happen | to-infinitive | Cheng not said here | minute | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | perceive | participle | a few minutes not said here | with astonishment | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | rest | past · progressive | girl | astonishment not said here | the surface of the water | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent astonishment=Theme on surface=Location |
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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