Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6, sentence 118
The turtle, arriving close to the shore, turned aside into a deep subterranean passage and kept on swimming for several hours until it reached a point where the channel was very narrow.
Who acts: turtle, swimming, channel · What happens: arrive, turn, keep, reach, be · To what, where: deep subterranean passage, swimming, point, turtle
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 (turtle, swimming, channel), 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 turtle | det |
| 2 | turtle | turtle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 arriving | punct |
| 4 | arriving | arrive | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 turtle | acl |
| 5 | close | close | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 arriving | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 shore | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 shore | det |
| 8 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 close | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 turned | punct |
| 10 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 arriving | advcl |
| 11 | aside | aside | ADV | _ | 10 turned | advmod |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 passage | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 passage | det |
| 14 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 passage | amod |
| 15 | subterranean | subterranean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 passage | compound |
| 16 | passage | passage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 turned | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 kept | cc |
| 18 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 turned | conj |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 swimming | case |
| 20 | swimming | swimming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 kept | obl |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 hours | case |
| 22 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 hours | amod |
| 23 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 kept | obl |
| 24 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 26 reached | mark |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 reached | nsubj |
| 26 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 kept | advcl |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 point | det |
| 28 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 reached | obj |
| 29 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 34 narrow | advmod |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 channel | det |
| 31 | channel | channel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 narrow | nsubj |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 narrow | cop |
| 33 | very | very | ADV | _ | 34 narrow | advmod |
| 34 | narrow | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 point | acl:relcl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 turtle | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | gerund | the turtle not said here | close property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | turn | participle | the turtle not said here | a deep subterranean passage | aside property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into passage=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | keep | participle | the turtle not said here | swimming | hour | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent on swimming=Location | |||
| 4 | reach | past | swimming | a point | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent point=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is | past | the channel | narrow property | tree rules |
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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