Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6, sentence 62
He saw in his dream a person whom he had already met in the course of his travels and who asked his name.
Who acts: San · What happens: see, meet, travel, ask, dream, name · To what, where: person, dream, course, name
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 (San), 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 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 dream | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 dream | nmod:poss |
| 5 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 saw | obl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 person | det |
| 7 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 saw | obj |
| 8 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 met | obl |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 met | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 met | aux |
| 11 | already | already | ADV | _ | 12 met | advmod |
| 12 | met | meet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 saw | parataxis |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 course | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 course | det |
| 15 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 met | obl |
| 16 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 18 travels | mark |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 travels | nmod:poss |
| 18 | travels | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 met | advcl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 asked | cc |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 asked | nsubj |
| 21 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 travels | conj |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 name | nmod:poss |
| 23 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 asked | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | San | a person | San's dream | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer person=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | meet | past · perfect | San | the course | whom obl | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | travel | present | San not said here | San nmod:poss | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | San's name | who nsubj | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | dream | San | nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | name | San | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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