Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 7, sentence 66
One afternoon, the two went to sit down upon a bench in the garden, as was their custom.
Who acts: two · What happens: go, sit down, be · To what, where: garden
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 (two), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 afternoon | nummod |
| 2 | afternoon | afternoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 afternoon | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 two | det |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 went | nsubj |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 sit | mark |
| 8 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 went | xcomp |
| 9 | down | down | ADP | _ | 8 sit | compound:prt |
| 10 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 12 bench | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 bench | det |
| 12 | bench | bench | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sit | obl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 garden | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 garden | det |
| 15 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sit | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 custom | punct |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 custom | case |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 custom | cop |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 custom | nmod:poss |
| 20 | custom | custom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sit | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the two | afternoon | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | sit down | to-infinitive | the two not said here | the garden | upon a bench | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon bench=Location | |||
| 3 | is | past | as hands's custom; hands = hand nmod:poss | 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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