Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 7, sentence 124
When one breaks the neck of a bottle one holds it carefully by the bottom.
Who acts: one, neck · What happens: break, hold · To what, where: composure
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 (one, neck), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 breaks | advmod |
| 2 | one | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 breaks | nsubj |
| 3 | breaks | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 holds | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 neck | det |
| 5 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 holds | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 one | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 one | det |
| 8 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 one | compound |
| 9 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 neck | nmod |
| 10 | holds | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 holds | obj |
| 12 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 10 holds | advmod |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 bottom | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 bottom | det |
| 15 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 holds | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 holds | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | present | one | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | hold | present | the neck of a bottle one | composure | by the bottom; carefully property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme by bottom=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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