Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 7, sentence 158
While yet some distance from the island, he could distinguish on the beach a man and woman, both apparently very young, talking and gesticulating with great earnestness.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: distinguish, talk, gesticulate · To what, where: man, beach
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), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 4 distance | mark |
| 2 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 4 distance | advmod |
| 3 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 distance | det |
| 4 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 distinguish | advcl |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 island | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 island | det |
| 7 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 distance | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 distance | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 distinguish | nsubj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 distinguish | aux |
| 11 | distinguish | distinguish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 beach | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 beach | det |
| 14 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 distinguish | obl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 man | det |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 distinguish | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 woman | cc |
| 18 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 man | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 young | punct |
| 20 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 young | nsubj |
| 21 | apparently | apparently | ADV | _ | 23 young | advmod |
| 22 | very | very | ADV | _ | 23 young | advmod |
| 23 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 distinguish | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 talking | punct |
| 25 | talking | talk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 young | advcl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 gesticulating | cc |
| 27 | gesticulating | gesticulate | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 talking | conj |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 earnestness | case |
| 29 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 earnestness | amod |
| 30 | earnestness | earnestness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 gesticulating | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 distinguish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | distinguish | could | Prince | a man and woman | the beach | some distance from the island advcl | vn distinguish-23.5-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||
| 2 | talk | gerund | Prince not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | gesticulate | gerund | Prince not said here | with great earnestness | tree rules |
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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