Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6, sentence 139
Drawing herself up through the hole she found that she was in the hollow trunk of an immense tree whose roots reached way down into the floor of the cave.
Who acts: other, Drawing · What happens: draw up, find, be, reach down · To what, where: other, hole, hollow trunk, way, floor
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, Drawing), 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 | Drawing | draw | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 reached | csubj |
| 2 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 1 Drawing | obj |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 1 Drawing | compound:prt |
| 4 | through | through | ADP | _ | 6 hole | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hole | det |
| 6 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Drawing | obl |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 found | nsubj |
| 8 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 hole | acl:relcl |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 trunk | mark |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 trunk | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 trunk | cop |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 trunk | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 trunk | det |
| 14 | hollow | hollow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 trunk | amod |
| 15 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Drawing | advcl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 tree | case |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 tree | det |
| 18 | immense | immense | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 tree | amod |
| 19 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 trunk | nmod |
| 20 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 21 roots | nmod:poss |
| 21 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 tree | nmod |
| 22 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 reached | obj |
| 24 | down | down | ADV | _ | 22 reached | advmod |
| 25 | into | into | ADP | _ | 27 floor | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 floor | det |
| 27 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 reached | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 cave | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 cave | det |
| 30 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 floor | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw up | gerund | other | the hole | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Theme | ||||
| 2 | find | past | other | the hole not said here | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is | past | other | the hollow trunk | of a immense tree a immense tree a immense tree's roots's roots | tree rules | |||
| 4 | reach down | past | Drawing | way | the floor of the cave | down property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent way=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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