Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 7, sentence 204
Hence, at the sight of these soldiers, excitement has spread all over the town.”
What happens: spread, sight · To what, where: sight, soldiers
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: 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 | Hence | hence | ADV | _ | 12 spread | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hence | punct |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 sight | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sight | det |
| 5 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 spread | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 soldiers | case |
| 7 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 soldiers | det |
| 8 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sight | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 excitement | punct |
| 10 | excitement | excitement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 soldiers | conj |
| 11 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 spread | aux |
| 12 | spread | spread | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 13 | all | all | ADV | _ | 16 town | advmod |
| 14 | over | over | ADP | _ | 16 town | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 town | det |
| 16 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 spread | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 spread | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 spread | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spread | present · perfect | the sight of this soldiers and excitement | over the town; hence property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at sight=Location | ||||
| 2 | sight | this soldiers and excitement | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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