Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 7, sentence 137
He ran toward the water but Cheng-Si like a flash seized her husband by his gown and showered upon him gentle reproaches:
Who acts: King, flash · What happens: run, seize, shower · To what, where: water, husband, gentle reproaches
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 (King, flash), 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 ran | nsubj |
| 2 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 5 water | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 water | det |
| 5 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ran | obl |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 Cheng | cc |
| 7 | Cheng | Cheng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 water | conj |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 Si | punct |
| 9 | Si | Si | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Cheng | conj |
| 10 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 13 seized | mark |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 flash | det |
| 12 | flash | flash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 seized | nsubj |
| 13 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ran | advcl |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 husband | nmod:poss |
| 15 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 seized | obj |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 gown | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 gown | nmod:poss |
| 18 | gown | gown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 seized | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 showered | cc |
| 20 | showered | shower | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ran | conj |
| 21 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 22 him | case |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 showered | obl |
| 23 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 reproaches | amod |
| 24 | reproaches | reproach | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 showered | obj |
| 25 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | King | the water but Cheng and Si | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme toward water=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | seize | past | a flash | flash's husband | by King's gown | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Theme | |||
| 3 | shower | past | King not said here | gentle reproaches | upon King | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent reproach=Theme upon he=Destination |
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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