Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6, sentence 96
The traders had prepared a magnificent altar covered with white and bearing curiously carved incense burners.
What happens: prepare, cover, bear, carve · To what, where: traders, magnificent altar, carved incense burners
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: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 traders | det |
| 2 | traders | trader | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 prepared | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 prepared | aux |
| 4 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 altar | det |
| 6 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 altar | amod |
| 7 | altar | altar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 prepared | obj |
| 8 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 altar | acl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 white | case |
| 10 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 covered | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 bearing | cc |
| 12 | bearing | bear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 white | conj |
| 13 | curiously | curiously | ADV | _ | 14 carved | advmod |
| 14 | carved | carve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 burners | amod |
| 15 | incense | incense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 burners | compound |
| 16 | burners | burner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 bearing | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 prepared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prepare | past · perfect · passive | the traders | a magnificent altar obj | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary altar=Product | ||||
| 2 | cover | participle | a magnificent altar not said here | with white | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with white=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bear | gerund | carved incense burners | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent burner=Patient | |||||
| 4 | carve | participle | curiously property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «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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