Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6, sentence 137
Her way was soon blocked by a pile of dirt which she painfully dug aside with her own hands.
Who acts: pile, other · What happens: block, dig · To what, where: way, dirt
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 (pile, other), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 way | nmod:poss |
| 2 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 blocked | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 blocked | aux:pass |
| 4 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 blocked | advmod |
| 5 | blocked | block | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 pile | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 pile | det |
| 8 | pile | pile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 blocked | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 dirt | case |
| 10 | dirt | dirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pile | nmod |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 dug | obj |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 dug | nsubj |
| 13 | painfully | painfully | ADV | _ | 14 dug | advmod |
| 14 | dug | dig | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 dirt | acl:relcl |
| 15 | aside | aside | ADV | _ | 14 dug | advmod |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 hands | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 hands | nmod:poss |
| 18 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 hands | amod |
| 19 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 dug | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 blocked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | block | past · passive | a pile of dirt | other's way | soon property | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | dig | past | other | dirt | with other's own hands; aside, painfully property | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.instsrument»: agent=Agent which=Theme with hand=Instrument |
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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