Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6, sentence 97
From the midst of the incense arose fragrant blue clouds of myrrh.
What happens: arise, cloud · To what, where: fragrant blue clouds, midst, myrrh
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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 midst | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 midst | det |
| 3 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 arose | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 incense | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 incense | det |
| 6 | incense | incense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 midst | nmod |
| 7 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | fragrant | fragrant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 clouds | amod |
| 9 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 clouds | amod |
| 10 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 arose | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 myrrh | case |
| 12 | myrrh | myrrh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 clouds | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 arose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arise | past | fragrant blue clouds of myrrh | the midst of the incense | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cloud=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cloud | myrrh | nom cloud «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
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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