Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 7, sentence 14
Her agitation prevented her from speaking, but the young King continued:
Who acts: agitation, young King · What happens: prevent, speak, continue · To what, where: Cheng · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (agitation, young King), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 agitation | nmod:poss |
| 2 | agitation | agitation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 prevented | nsubj |
| 3 | prevented | prevent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 prevented | obj |
| 5 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 6 speaking | mark |
| 6 | speaking | speak | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 prevented | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 continued | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 continued | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 King | det |
| 10 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 King | amod |
| 11 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 continued | nsubj |
| 12 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 prevented | parataxis |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prevent | past | Cheng's agitation | Cheng | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer she=Theme | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | gerund | Cheng's agitation not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | continue | past | the young King | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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