Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 7, sentence 7
He expected to find a butterfly, and, behold, he discovered a beautiful young girl before him.
Who acts: man · What happens: expect, find, discover · To what, where: butterfly, beautiful young girl
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 (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 | 2 expected | nsubj |
| 2 | expected | expect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 find | mark |
| 4 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 expected | xcomp |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 butterfly | det |
| 6 | butterfly | butterfly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 find | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 discovered | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 discovered | cc |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 and | punct |
| 10 | behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 13 discovered | discourse |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 behold | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 discovered | nsubj |
| 13 | discovered | discover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 expected | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 girl | det |
| 15 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 girl | amod |
| 16 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 girl | amod |
| 17 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 discovered | obj |
| 18 | before | before | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 discovered | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 expected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | expect | past | man | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | find not said to happen | to-infinitive | man not said here | a butterfly | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent butterfly=Topic | ||||
| 3 | discover | past | man | a beautiful young girl | before butterfly | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Topic |
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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