Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6, sentence 114
Upon awakening, Cheng-Si glanced about her in all directions and noticed an island in the near distance.
Who acts: Cheng · What happens: awaken, glance, notice · To what, where: directions, island
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), 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 | Upon | upon | SCONJ | _ | 2 awakening | mark |
| 2 | awakening | awaken | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 glanced | advcl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 awakening | punct |
| 4 | Cheng | Cheng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 glanced | nsubj |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Cheng | punct |
| 6 | Si | Si | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Cheng | flat |
| 7 | glanced | glance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | about | about | ADP | _ | 9 her | case |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 glanced | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 directions | case |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 directions | det |
| 12 | directions | direction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 glanced | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 noticed | cc |
| 14 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 glanced | conj |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 island | det |
| 16 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 noticed | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 distance | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 distance | det |
| 19 | near | near | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 distance | amod |
| 20 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 noticed | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 glanced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awaken | gerund | Cheng not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | glance | past | Cheng | all directions | about turtle | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about she=Theme | |||
| 3 | notice | past | Cheng not said here | a island | in the near distance | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer island=Stimulus |
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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