Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6, sentence 143
A huge wall served to close the garden from outside view.
What happens: serve, close · To what, where: huge wall, garden, outside view
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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 wall | det |
| 2 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 wall | amod |
| 3 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | served | serve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 wall | acl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 close | mark |
| 6 | close | close | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 served | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 garden | det |
| 8 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 close | obj |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 view | case |
| 10 | outside | outside | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 view | amod |
| 11 | view | view | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 close | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wall | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | serve | participle | a huge wall not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | close | to-infinitive | the garden | outside view | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent garden=Patient |
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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