Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6, sentence 128
Lying conspicuously close by was a letter addressed to Cheng-Si herself.
What happens: lie, be, address · To what, where: letter, Cheng
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 | Lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | conspicuously | conspicuously | ADV | _ | 1 Lying | advmod |
| 3 | close | close | ADV | Degree=Pos | 1 Lying | advmod |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 letter | case |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 letter | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 letter | det |
| 7 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Lying | obl |
| 8 | addressed | address | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 letter | acl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 Cheng | case |
| 10 | Cheng | Cheng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 addressed | obl |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 Si | punct |
| 12 | Si | Si | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Cheng | conj |
| 13 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 Cheng | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Lying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | gerund | close, conspicuously property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | by a letter | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | address | participle | a letter not said here | Cheng One and Si | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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