Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6, sentence 172
Later on, when the curtain of twilight began to lower its darkness the prisoner entered his house to seek slumber but all night long he was haunted by the memory of the girl he had seen in his garden and he could not sleep.
Who acts: curtain, prisoner, memory · What happens: begin, lower, enter, seek, haunt, see · To what, where: darkness, house, slumber, prisoner, girl, garden
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 (curtain, prisoner, memory), 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 | Later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 2 on | advmod |
| 2 | on | on | ADV | _ | 9 began | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 began | punct |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 began | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 curtain | det |
| 6 | curtain | curtain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 began | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 twilight | case |
| 8 | twilight | twilight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 curtain | nmod |
| 9 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 lower | mark |
| 11 | lower | lower | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 began | xcomp |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 darkness | nmod:poss |
| 13 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lower | obj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 prisoner | det |
| 15 | prisoner | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 entered | nsubj |
| 16 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 lower | advcl |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 house | nmod:poss |
| 18 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 entered | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 seek | mark |
| 20 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 entered | advcl |
| 21 | slumber | slumber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 seek | obj |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 night | cc |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 night | det |
| 24 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 slumber | conj |
| 25 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 28 haunted | advmod |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 haunted | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 haunted | aux:pass |
| 28 | haunted | haunt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 slumber | acl |
| 29 | by | by | ADP | _ | 31 memory | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 memory | det |
| 31 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 haunted | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 girl | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 girl | det |
| 34 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 memory | nmod |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 seen | nsubj |
| 36 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 seen | aux |
| 37 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 34 girl | acl:relcl |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 garden | case |
| 39 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 garden | nmod:poss |
| 40 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 seen | obl |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 sleep | cc |
| 42 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 sleep | nsubj |
| 43 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 45 sleep | aux |
| 44 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 45 sleep | advmod |
| 45 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 began | conj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | the curtain of twilight | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | lower | to-infinitive | the curtain of twilight not said here | curtain's darkness | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent darkness=Theme | ||||
| 3 | enter | past | the prisoner | prisoner's house | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme house=Destination | ||||
| 4 | seek | to-infinitive | the prisoner not said here | slumber but all night | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slumber=Theme | ||||
| 5 | haunt | past · passive | the memory of the girl | prisoner | long property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer | |||
| 6 | see | past · perfect | prisoner | the girl not said here | prisoner's garden | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer girl=Stimulus | |||
| 7 | not sleep | could | prisoner | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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