Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6, sentence 106
The animal kept on swimming, without seeming to be incommoded by his unusual burden.
Who acts: unusual burden, animal · What happens: keep, seem, incommode, burden · To what, where: animal, swimming
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 (unusual burden, animal), 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 animal | det |
| 2 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 swimming | case |
| 5 | swimming | swimming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 kept | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 seeming | punct |
| 7 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 8 seeming | mark |
| 8 | seeming | seem | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 kept | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 incommoded | mark |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 incommoded | aux:pass |
| 11 | incommoded | incommode | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 seeming | xcomp |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 burden | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 burden | nmod:poss |
| 14 | unusual | unusual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 burden | amod |
| 15 | burden | burden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 incommoded | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | participle · passive | the animal | swimming | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme on swimming=Location | ||||
| 2 | seem | gerund | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||||
| 3 | incommode | to-infinitive · passive | animal's unusual burden | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | burden | animal | nom burden «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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