Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 7, sentence 105
They drew up a large table and covered it with a red cloth.
Who acts: Friendship · What happens: draw up, cover · To what, where: large table, table
This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Friendship), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 drew | nsubj |
| 2 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 drew | compound:prt |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 table | det |
| 5 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 table | amod |
| 6 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 drew | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 covered | cc |
| 8 | covered | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 drew | conj |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 covered | obj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 cloth | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 cloth | det |
| 12 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 cloth | amod |
| 13 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 covered | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw up | past | Friendship | a large table | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent table=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cover | past | Friendship not said here | table | with a red cloth | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination with cloth=Theme |
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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