Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6, sentence 136
She picked her way carefully along the sides of the cavern in the direction whence the sunlight came.
Who acts: other, sunlight · What happens: pick, come · To what, where: way, direction
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 (other, sunlight), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 picked | nsubj |
| 2 | picked | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 way | nmod:poss |
| 4 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 picked | obj |
| 5 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 2 picked | advmod |
| 6 | along | along | ADP | _ | 8 sides | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sides | det |
| 8 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 picked | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 cavern | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 cavern | det |
| 11 | cavern | cavern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sides | nmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 direction | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 direction | det |
| 14 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 picked | obl |
| 15 | whence | whence | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 came | advmod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sunlight | det |
| 17 | sunlight | sunlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 came | nsubj |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 picked | parataxis |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 picked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pick | past | other | other's way | the direction | along the sides of the cavern; carefully property | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient | ||
| 2 | come | past | the sunlight | whence property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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