Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 7, sentence 20
A turtle caught me on his back and carried me to this island where I have been for several days.”
Who acts: turtle · What happens: catch, carry · To what, where: me, back, island
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 (turtle), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 turtle | det |
| 2 | turtle | turtle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 caught | nsubj |
| 3 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 caught | obj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 back | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 back | nmod:poss |
| 7 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 caught | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 carried | cc |
| 9 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 caught | conj |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 carried | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 island | case |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 island | det |
| 13 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 carried | obl |
| 14 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 been | advmod |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 been | nsubj |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 been | aux |
| 17 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 island | acl:relcl |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 days | case |
| 19 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 days | amod |
| 20 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 been | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 caught | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past | a turtle | me | turtle's back | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||
| 2 | carry | past | a turtle not said here | me | this island | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to island=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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