Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 7, sentence 131
Placing burning brands in various parts of the house they hurried into the garden.
Who acts: brands · What happens: place, burn, hurry · To what, where: brands, various parts, house, garden
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 (brands), 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 | Placing | place | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | burning | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Placing | ccomp |
| 3 | brands | brand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 burning | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 parts | case |
| 5 | various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 parts | amod |
| 6 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 burning | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 house | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 house | det |
| 9 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 parts | nmod |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 hurried | nsubj |
| 11 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 house | acl:relcl |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 garden | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 garden | det |
| 14 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hurried | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Placing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | place | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | burn | gerund | brands | various parts of the house | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent brand=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hurry | past | brands = brand | the house not said here | the garden | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent house=Theme into garden=Trajectory |
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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