Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6, sentence 122
Amidst the deep darkness she was seized with a great fear.
What happens: seize · To what, where: Amidst
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: 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 | Amidst | Amidst | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 darkness | det |
| 3 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 darkness | amod |
| 4 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Amidst | appos |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 seized | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 seized | aux:pass |
| 7 | seized | seize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 darkness | acl:relcl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 fear | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 fear | det |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 fear | amod |
| 11 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 seized | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Amidst | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | past · passive | Amidst | with a great fear | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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