Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6, sentence 144
In the centre arose a magnificent dwelling which harmonized nicely with its surroundings.
Who acts: magnificent dwelling · What happens: arise, harmonize · To what, where: magnificent dwelling, centre
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 (magnificent dwelling), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 centre | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 centre | det |
| 3 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 arose | obl |
| 4 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 dwelling | det |
| 6 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 dwelling | amod |
| 7 | dwelling | dwelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 arose | obj |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 harmonized | nsubj |
| 9 | harmonized | harmonize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 dwelling | acl:relcl |
| 10 | nicely | nicely | ADV | _ | 9 harmonized | advmod |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 surroundings | case |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 surroundings | nmod:poss |
| 13 | surroundings | surroundings | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 9 harmonized | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 arose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arise | past | a magnificent dwelling | the centre | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dwelling=Theme | ||||
| 2 | harmonize | past | a magnificent dwelling | with dwelling's surroundings; nicely property | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with surroundings=Co-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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