Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6, sentence 142
Not only were there trees of luxuriant green foliage, spreading gorgeous blossoms caressed by the soft, sweet breath of variegated butterflies, and bees and birds, but the air itself was laden with an intoxicating perfume.
Who acts: luxuriant green foliage, bees · What happens: not be, spread, caress, variegate, lade · To what, where: trees, gorgeous blossoms, air
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 (luxuriant green foliage, bees), 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 trees | advmod |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 trees | advmod |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 trees | cop |
| 4 | there | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Typo=Yes | 5 trees | nmod:poss |
| 5 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 foliage | case |
| 7 | luxuriant | luxuriant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 foliage | amod |
| 8 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 foliage | amod |
| 9 | foliage | foliage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 trees | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 spreading | punct |
| 11 | spreading | spread | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 foliage | acl |
| 12 | gorgeous | gorgeous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 blossoms | amod |
| 13 | blossoms | blossom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 spreading | obj |
| 14 | caressed | caress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 blossoms | acl |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 breath | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 breath | det |
| 17 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 breath | amod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 soft | punct |
| 19 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 breath | amod |
| 20 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 caressed | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 butterflies | case |
| 22 | variegated | variegate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 butterflies | amod |
| 23 | butterflies | butterfly | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 breath | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 bees | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 bees | cc |
| 26 | bees | bee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 trees | conj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 birds | cc |
| 28 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 bees | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 laden | punct |
| 30 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 35 laden | cc |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 air | det |
| 32 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 laden | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 32 air | nmod:unmarked |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 laden | aux:pass |
| 35 | laden | lade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 bees | acl |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 39 perfume | case |
| 37 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 perfume | det |
| 38 | intoxicating | intoxicating | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 perfume | amod |
| 39 | perfume | perfume | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 laden | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 trees | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | past | there's trees and bees and birds | of luxuriant green foliage; there = they nmod:poss; bees and birds conj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | spread | gerund | luxuriant green foliage not said here | gorgeous blossoms | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location blossom=Theme | ||||
| 3 | caress | participle | gorgeous blossoms not said here | by the soft sweet breath of variegated butterflies | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.theme PP.instrument»: agent=Agent by breath=Theme | ||||
| 4 | variegate | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | lade | past · passive | bees and birds not said here | the air air | with a intoxicating perfume | tree rules |
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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