Winning Buddha's smile, Winning Buddha’s Smile, part 7, sentence 8
So great was his surprise that he recoiled for a moment, but quickly suppressing this instinctive impulse, he went toward her, saying:
Who acts: man · What happens: be, recoil, suppress, go, say · To what, where: great surprise, instinctive impulse · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 great | advmod |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 surprise | amod |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 surprise | cop |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 surprise | nmod:poss |
| 5 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 recoiled | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 recoiled | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 recoiled | nsubj |
| 8 | recoiled | recoil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 moment | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 moment | det |
| 11 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 recoiled | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 suppressing | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 suppressing | cc |
| 14 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 15 suppressing | advmod |
| 15 | suppressing | suppress | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 recoiled | advcl |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 impulse | det |
| 17 | instinctive | instinctive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 impulse | amod |
| 18 | impulse | impulse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 suppressing | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 went | punct |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 went | nsubj |
| 21 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 recoiled | conj |
| 22 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 23 her | case |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 went | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 saying | punct |
| 25 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 went | advcl |
| 26 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 recoiled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | man's great surprise | man nmod:poss | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | recoil | past | man | moment | vn flinch-40.5 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | suppress | gerund | man not said here | this instinctive impulse | quickly property | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent impulse=Patient | |||
| 4 | go | past | man | toward girl | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme toward she=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | gerund | man not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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