Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 7, sentence 42
He was drawn from his meditation by the arrival of the servant who came each day to bring his food.
Who acts: arrival, servant, man · What happens: draw, come, bring, meditate, arrive · To what, where: man, meditation, food
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 (arrival, servant, man), 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 | 3 drawn | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 drawn | aux:pass |
| 3 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 meditation | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 meditation | nmod:poss |
| 6 | meditation | meditation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drawn | obl |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 arrival | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 arrival | det |
| 9 | arrival | arrival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drawn | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 servant | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 servant | det |
| 12 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 arrival | nmod |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 came | nsubj |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 servant | acl:relcl |
| 15 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 day | det |
| 16 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 came | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 bring | mark |
| 18 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 came | advcl |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 food | nmod:poss |
| 20 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bring | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 drawn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past · passive | the arrival of the servant | man | man's meditation | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent subject=Theme from meditation=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | come | past | the servant | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bring | to-infinitive | the servant not said here | man's food | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent food=Theme | ||||
| 4 | meditate | man | nom meditation «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | arrive | the servant | nom arrival «act intransitive»: of=agent |
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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