Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6, sentence 121
While the large animal turned and swam back toward the sea the girl tried to comprehend the situation in which she found herself.
Who acts: large animal, girl · What happens: turn, swim back, try, comprehend, find · To what, where: sea, situation, girl
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 (large animal, 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 5 turned | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 animal | det |
| 3 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 animal | amod |
| 4 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 turned | nsubj |
| 5 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 swam | cc |
| 7 | swam | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 turned | conj |
| 8 | back | back | ADV | _ | 7 swam | advmod |
| 9 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 11 sea | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sea | det |
| 11 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 swam | obl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 girl | det |
| 13 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tried | nsubj |
| 14 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 turned | advcl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 comprehend | mark |
| 16 | comprehend | comprehend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 tried | xcomp |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 situation | det |
| 18 | situation | situation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 comprehend | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 which | case |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 found | obl |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 found | nsubj |
| 22 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 situation | acl:relcl |
| 23 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 22 found | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | the large animal | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | swim back | past | the large animal not said here | the sea | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme toward sea=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | try | past | the girl | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | comprehend not said to happen | to-infinitive | the girl not said here | the situation | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer situation=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | find | past | girl | girl | the situation | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Topic |
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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