Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 7, sentence 110
He saw in his dream a large bottle the upper portion of which had been broken, whence a crimson stream was slowly flowing.
Who acts: Prince, crimson stream · What happens: see, break, flow, dream · To what, where: large bottle, dream
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 (Prince, crimson stream), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 dream | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 dream | nmod:poss |
| 5 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 saw | obl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 bottle | det |
| 7 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 bottle | amod |
| 8 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 saw | obj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 portion | det |
| 10 | upper | upper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 portion | amod |
| 11 | portion | portion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 saw | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 which | case |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 broken | obl |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 broken | aux |
| 15 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 broken | aux:pass |
| 16 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 portion | acl:relcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 flowing | punct |
| 18 | whence | whence | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 flowing | advmod |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 stream | det |
| 20 | crimson | crimson | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 stream | amod |
| 21 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 flowing | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 flowing | aux |
| 23 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 24 flowing | advmod |
| 24 | flowing | flow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 saw | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Prince | a large bottle | Prince's dream | the upper portion obj | tree rules | ||
| 2 | break | past · perfect · passive | of the upper portion | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: of which=Co-Patient | |||||
| 3 | flow | past · progressive | a crimson stream | slowly, whence property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | dream | Prince | nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=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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