Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6, sentence 105
In her plunge she had struck an obstacle and this obstacle was nothing else than a gigantic sea turtle.
Who acts: girl, obstacle · What happens: strike, be, plunge · To what, where: obstacle, plunge, nothing
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 (girl, obstacle), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 plunge | case |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 plunge | nmod:poss |
| 3 | plunge | plunge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 struck | obl |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 struck | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 struck | aux |
| 6 | struck | strike | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 obstacle | det |
| 8 | obstacle | obstacle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 struck | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 nothing | cc |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 obstacle | det |
| 11 | obstacle | obstacle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 nothing | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 nothing | cop |
| 13 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 6 struck | conj |
| 14 | else | else | ADV | _ | 13 nothing | advmod |
| 15 | than | than | ADP | _ | 19 turtle | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 turtle | det |
| 17 | gigantic | gigantic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 turtle | amod |
| 18 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 turtle | compound |
| 19 | turtle | turtle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 nothing | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | past · perfect | girl | a obstacle | girl's plunge | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent obstacle=Patient | |||
| 2 | is a | past | this obstacle | nothing | than a gigantic sea turtle; else property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | plunge | girl | nom plunge «act 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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