Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6, sentence 109
Her mother appeared before her, borne on the fleecy sheets of a cloud, and left with her these words:
Who acts: mother, girl · What happens: appear, bear, leave, word · To what, where: fleecy sheets
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 (mother, 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 mother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 appeared | nsubj |
| 3 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | before | before | ADP | _ | 5 her | case |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 appeared | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 borne | punct |
| 7 | borne | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 appeared | conj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 sheets | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sheets | det |
| 10 | fleecy | fleecy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 sheets | amod |
| 11 | sheets | sheet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 borne | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 cloud | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 cloud | det |
| 14 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sheets | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 left | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 left | cc |
| 17 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 appeared | conj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 words | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 words | nmod:poss |
| 20 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 21 words | det |
| 21 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 left | obl |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | girl's mother | before girl | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before she=Location | ||||
| 2 | bear | participle | girl's mother not said here | the fleecy sheets of a cloud | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | leave | past | girl's mother not said here | with girl's words | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent with word=Theme | ||||
| 4 | word | girl | nom word «communication 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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