Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6, sentence 166
He untied the cord from about his neck and started in headlong pursuit after the charming apparition. ’
Who acts: glimpse · What happens: untie, start · To what, where: cord, headlong pursuit
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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 untied | nsubj |
| 2 | untied | untie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 cord | det |
| 4 | cord | cord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 untied | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 neck | case |
| 6 | about | about | ADV | _ | 8 neck | advmod |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 neck | nmod:poss |
| 8 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 untied | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 started | cc |
| 10 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 untied | conj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 pursuit | case |
| 12 | headlong | headlong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 pursuit | amod |
| 13 | pursuit | pursuit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 started | obl |
| 14 | after | after | ADP | _ | 17 apparition | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 apparition | det |
| 16 | charming | charming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 apparition | compound |
| 17 | apparition | apparition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 started | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 untied | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 untied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | untie | past | glimpse | the cord | from glimpse's neck | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent cord=Patient from neck=Co-Patient | |||
| 2 | start | past | glimpse not said here | headlong pursuit | after the charming apparition | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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