Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6, sentence 95
One might have thought that she was going to her wedding instead of her death.
Who acts: vessel · What happens: think, go, wed, die · To what, where: One, wedding
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 (vessel), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 thought | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 thought | aux |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 thought | aux |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 going | mark |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 going | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 going | aux |
| 8 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 thought | advcl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 wedding | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 wedding | nmod:poss |
| 11 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 going | obl |
| 12 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 15 death | case |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 instead | fixed |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 death | nmod:poss |
| 15 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 going | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | might · perfect · passive | One | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | go | past · progressive | vessel | vessel's wedding | instead vessel's death | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to wedding=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | wed | vessel | nom wedding «event transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 4 | die | vessel | nom death «event intransitive»: 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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