Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6, sentence 126
Suddenly she saw a ray of sunlight that filtered through the rocky vault above her head.
Who acts: One, ray · What happens: see, filter, ray · To what, where: ray, rocky vault, sunlight
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 (One, ray), 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 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 3 saw | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 ray | det |
| 5 | ray | ray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 sunlight | case |
| 7 | sunlight | sunlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ray | nmod |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 filtered | nsubj |
| 9 | filtered | filter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ray | acl:relcl |
| 10 | through | through | ADP | _ | 13 vault | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 vault | det |
| 12 | rocky | rocky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 vault | amod |
| 13 | vault | vault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 filtered | obl |
| 14 | above | above | ADP | _ | 16 head | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 head | nmod:poss |
| 16 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 vault | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | One | a ray of sunlight | suddenly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ray=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | filter | past | a ray of sunlight | the rocky vault above One's head | vn wipe_instr-10.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | ray | sunlight | nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
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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