Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 7, sentence 67
The young Prince laughed scornfully, as he pointed out to Cheng-Si the graves scattered here and there in the sun-kissed grass.
Who acts: young Prince, Prince, graves · What happens: laugh, point out, scatter, kiss · To what, where: Cheng, Si, kissed grass
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 Prince, Prince, graves), 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 Prince | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Prince | amod |
| 3 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 laughed | nsubj |
| 4 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | scornfully | scornfully | ADV | _ | 4 laughed | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 pointed | punct |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 pointed | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 pointed | nsubj |
| 9 | pointed | point | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 laughed | conj |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 pointed | compound:prt |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 Cheng | case |
| 12 | Cheng | Cheng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 pointed | obl |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 Si | punct |
| 14 | Si | Si | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 scattered | obl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 graves | det |
| 16 | graves | grave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 scattered | nsubj |
| 17 | scattered | scatter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 laughed | parataxis |
| 18 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 scattered | advmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 there | cc |
| 20 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 here | conj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 grass | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 grass | det |
| 23 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 kissed | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 sun | punct |
| 25 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 grass | amod |
| 26 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 scattered | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 laughed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | past | the young Prince | scornfully property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | point out | past | Prince | Cheng | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to cheng=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | scatter | past | the graves | Si | the kissed grass; here; there | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in grass=Destination | |||
| 4 | kiss | participle | sun compound | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=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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