Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 7, sentence 11
I was chasing a butterfly that took refuge in the trunk of this tree, and in trying to catch it I came upon you.”
Who acts: I, butterfly · What happens: chase, take, try, catch, come · To what, where: butterfly, refuge, trunk
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 (I, butterfly), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 chasing | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 chasing | aux |
| 3 | chasing | chase | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 butterfly | det |
| 5 | butterfly | butterfly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 chasing | obj |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 took | nsubj |
| 7 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 butterfly | acl:relcl |
| 8 | refuge | refuge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 took | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 trunk | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 trunk | det |
| 11 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 took | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 tree | case |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 tree | det |
| 14 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 trunk | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 came | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 came | cc |
| 17 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 18 trying | mark |
| 18 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 came | advcl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 catch | mark |
| 20 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 trying | xcomp |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 catch | obj |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 came | nsubj |
| 23 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 took | conj |
| 24 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 25 you | case |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 came | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 chasing | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 chasing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chase | past · progressive | I | a butterfly | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent butterfly=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | past | a butterfly | refuge | the trunk of this tree | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent refuge=Value in trunk=Location | |||
| 3 | try | gerund | I not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | catch not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | refuge | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 5 | come | past | I | upon you | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon you=Location |
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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