Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6, sentence 165
A single glimpse of a woman had had this potent effect on him--believe it or not.
Who acts: single glimpse · What happens: have, believe, glimpse · To what, where: potent effect, effect, woman
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 (single glimpse), 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 glimpse | det |
| 2 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 glimpse | amod |
| 3 | glimpse | glimpse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 woman | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 woman | det |
| 6 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 glimpse | nmod |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 had | aux |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 effect | det |
| 10 | potent | potent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 effect | compound |
| 11 | effect | effect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 effect | nmod |
| 14 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 15 believe | punct |
| 15 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 had | parataxis |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 believe | obj |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 not | cc |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 believe | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past · perfect | a single glimpse of a woman | this potent effect | on body | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=Patient | |||
| 2 | believe | infinitive | effect | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | glimpse | a woman | nom glimpse «act transitive»: of=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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