Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 7, sentence 6
The young man had closely watched the insect’s flight, and feeling certain now of capturing his prey, he advanced with open hands.
Who acts: young man, feeling, man · What happens: watch, feel, capture, advance · To what, where: flight, prey
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 (young man, feeling, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 watched | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 watched | aux |
| 5 | closely | closely | ADV | _ | 6 watched | advmod |
| 6 | watched | watch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 insect | det |
| 8 | insect | insect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 flight | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 insect | case |
| 10 | flight | flight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 watched | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 capturing | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 capturing | cc |
| 13 | feeling | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 capturing | csubj |
| 14 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 feeling | xcomp |
| 15 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 capturing | advmod |
| 16 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 17 capturing | mark |
| 17 | capturing | capture | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 watched | conj |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 prey | nmod:poss |
| 19 | prey | prey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 capturing | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 advanced | punct |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 advanced | nsubj |
| 22 | advanced | advance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 watched | conj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 hands | case |
| 24 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 hands | amod |
| 25 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 advanced | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 watched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | past · perfect | the young man | the insect's flight | closely property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flight=Theme | |||
| 2 | feel | gerund | certain property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | capture | gerund | feeling | insect's prey | now | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prey=Theme | |||
| 4 | advance | past | man | with open hands | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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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