Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 6, sentence 99
The girl was stationed between the two candles, in front of the incense burners.
What happens: station · To what, where: girl, two candles
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 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stationed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stationed | aux:pass |
| 4 | stationed | station | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | between | between | ADP | _ | 8 candles | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 candles | det |
| 7 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 candles | nummod |
| 8 | candles | candle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 stationed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 front | punct |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 front | case |
| 11 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 candles | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 burners | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 burners | det |
| 14 | incense | incense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 burners | compound |
| 15 | burners | burner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 front | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stationed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | station | past · passive | the girl | the two candles in front of the incense burners | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme between candle=Destination |
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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